![]() Because it has become such a pervasive technology, many excellent introductory guides are available elsewhere and we will therefore assume in the reader a basic understanding of such key concepts as element, attribute, schema, name space, briefly glossed below for the sake of intelligibility. XML provides a simple way of representing structured data as a linear stream of character data, and of labelling particular parts of that stream with named tags to indicate structural function or semantics. In this brief guide we will try to exemplify some of these notions, using the vocabulary defined by the TEI in its Guidelines.ģAt present TEI documents in digital form are expressed using a very widely-used formal encoding language called XML, the extensible markup language, first published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1998, but with origins in the document preparation systems of the 1980s. It attempts to treat all kinds of digital document in the same way, whether they were ‘born digital’ or not.ĢAs a consequence, the TEI framework provides a useful way of thinking about the nature of text: it constitutes a kind of encyclopaedia of generally-agreed textual notions. Hence, the TEI view of what text actually is is largely conditioned by what text has been in the past, without however compromising too greatly what text may become in the future. ![]() ![]() This continuity facilitates the migration of text from older manifestations such as print or manuscript to newer ones such as disk or display. ![]() 1The TEI emphasizes what is common to every kind of document, whether physically represented in digital form on disk or memory card, in printed form as book or newspaper, in written form as manuscript or codex, or in inscribed form on stone or wax tablet. ![]()
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