TEI Lite

A particular parametrisation of TEI (a DTD), which implements a useful `starter set', comprising the elements which almost every user should know about.

Some characteristcs of TEI Lite:

• includes most of the TEI `core' tag set, since this contains elements relevant to virtually all text types and all kinds of text-processing work
• handles a reasonably wide variety of texts, at the level of detail found in existing practice
• is useful for the production of new documents as well as encoding of existing ones;
• is usable with a wide range of existing SGML software;
• is derivable from the full TEI DTD using the extension mechanisms described in the TEI Guidelines;
• is as small and simple as is consistent with the other goals.

TEI Lite has also been ported to XML.