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The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines8 Base Tag Set for Prose |
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Introductory Note (March 2002) 2 A Gentle Introduction to XML 3 Structure of the TEI Document Type Definition 4 Languages and Character Sets 6 Elements Available in All TEI Documents 14 Linking, Segmentation, and Alignment 17 Certainty and Responsibility 18 Transcription of Primary Sources 21 Graphs, Networks, and Trees 22 Tables, Formulae, and Graphics 29 Modifying and Customizing the TEI DTD 32 Algorithm for Recognizing Canonical References 38 Sample Tag Set Documentation 39 Formal Grammar for the TEI-Interchange-Format Subset of SGML |
This chapter describes the base tag set for prose texts, the simplest of the base tag sets defined by these Guidelines. It should be used for all texts in prose, whether fiction or non-fiction, novel or technical manual. Prose material can appear in the front and back matter of virtually any text type, even where the body may be composed of very different component elements. Consequently, the elements needed to encode conventional prose are all included in the core tag set described in chapter 6 Elements Available in All TEI Documents) and the base tag set for prose itself defines no elements at all: it merely invokes the tag set for default text structure. When this base tag set is used, all the elements defined in the core tag sets are available, as are those in the default text structure described in chapter 7 Default Text Structure. No other elements are available, unless one or more of the additional tag sets is also enabled. The base tag set for prose should be invoked by defining the parameter entity TEI.prose with the value INCLUDE. A document using this base tag set and no other will thus begin as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE TEI.2 PUBLIC "-//TEI P4//DTD Main Document Type//EN" "tei2.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % TEI.XML 'INCLUDE' > <!ENTITY % TEI.prose 'INCLUDE' > ]> The base tag set for prose is formally defined by the following DTD fragment: <!-- 8.: Base Tag Set for Prose--> <!--Text Encoding Initiative Consortium: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Document TEI P4, 2002. Copyright (c) 2002 TEI Consortium. Permission to copy in any form is granted, provided this notice is included in all copies. These materials may not be altered; modifications to these DTDs should be performed only as specified by the Guidelines, for example in the chapter entitled 'Modifying the TEI DTD' These materials are subject to revision by the TEI Consortium. Current versions are available from the Consortium website at http://www.tei-c.org--> <!--This base tag set does nothing but declare and embed the default text structure. When it is selected, therefore, the only tags available are those in the core and those defined in other selected tag sets.--> <![%TEI.singleBase;[ <!ENTITY % TEI.structure.dtd PUBLIC '-//TEI P4//ELEMENTS Default Text Structure//EN' 'teistr2.dtd' > %TEI.structure.dtd; ]]> <!-- end of 8.--> |
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