The TEI Consortium

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH);
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL);
The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)

TEI P4

Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

XML-compatible edition

edited by C M Sperberg-McQueen
and Lou Burnard

XML conversion by Syd Bauman, Lou Burnard, Steven DeRose, and Sebastian Rahtz

Introductory Note (March 2002)

1 About These Guidelines

2 A Gentle Introduction to XML

3 Structure of the TEI Document Type Definition

4 Languages and Character Sets

5 The TEI Header

6 Elements Available in All TEI Documents

7 Default Text Structure

8 Base Tag Set for Prose

9 Base Tag Set for Verse

10 Base Tag Set for Drama

11 Transcriptions of Speech

12 Print Dictionaries

13 Terminological Databases

14 Linking, Segmentation, and Alignment

15 Simple Analytic Mechanisms

16 Feature Structures

17 Certainty and Responsibility

18 Transcription of Primary Sources

19 Critical Apparatus

20 Names and Dates

21 Graphs, Networks, and Trees

22 Tables, Formulae, and Graphics

23 Language Corpora

24 The Independent Header

25 Writing System Declaration

26 Feature System Declaration

27 Tag Set Documentation

28 Conformance

29 Modifying and Customizing the TEI DTD

30 Rules for Interchange

31 Multiple Hierarchies

32 Algorithm for Recognizing Canonical References

33 Element Classes

34 Entities

35 Elements

36 Obtaining the TEI DTD

37 Obtaining TEI WSDs

38 Sample Tag Set Documentation

39 Formal Grammar for the TEI-Interchange-Format Subset of SGML

Appendix A Bibliography

Appendix B Index

Appendix C Prefatory Notes

Appendix D Colophon