TEI: Customization The Text Encoding Initiative

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Because the TEI Guidelines must cover such a broad domain and user community, it is essential that they be customizable: both to permit the creation of manageable subsets that serve particular purposes, and also to permit usage in areas that the TEI has not yet envisioned. Customization is a central aspect of TEI usage and the Guidelines are designed with customization in mind.

The TEI provides a number of basic, general-purpose customizations. One of the best-known of these is TEI Lite, which was originally designed as a demonstration of the customization mechanism, but has become popular as a simple TEI schema for basic encoding. Other basic customizations are listed below. To create your own customization, you can do one of the following: Use the Roma web tool to select TEI modules, add and delete elements, and make other choices; see Creating TEI Customizations with Roma for more detailed information on using Roma. (Use the Pizza Chef application to create customized TEI-conformant DTDs for P4 and earlier versions of the Guidelines.) Write your own customization by hand using the TEI ODD language; see Getting Started with P5 ODDs and Using the TEI (Chapter 23 of the Guidelines) for more detailed information on how to do this.

In addition to the customizations developed by the TEI, some TEI customizations have been developed by specific projects or communities with the intention that they be shared publicly, and are listed below. If you have a useful TEI customization that you would like to publish here, please send email to editors@tei-c.org. Please also use the TEI Wiki () for discussion of customization.

Customizations provided by the TEI Consortium

Lite TEI Lite, the most widely used TEI customization; includes basic elements for simple documents ODD DTD RNG XSD HTML PDF TEI Tite A constrained customization designed for use by keyboarding vendors. ODD DTD RNG XSD HTML PDF Bare TEI Absolutely Bare, a very barebones schema with the absolute minimum of elements ODD DTD RNG XSD All TEI with all modules included ODD DTD RNG XSD Corpus TEI for Linguistic Corpora, includes the modules for encoding linguistic corpora ODD DTD RNG XSD MS TEI for Manuscript Description, includes the elements for describing manuscripts and complex physical aspects of documents ODD DTD RNG XSD Drama TEI with Drama, includes the TEI drama module ODD DTD RNG XSD Speech TEI for Speech Representation, includes the TEI module for spoken language ODD DTD RNG XSD Dictionaries TEI for Dictionaries ODD DTD RNG XSD

The following customizations are more restricted or experimental, and are not available as DTDs or in XSD format. Odds TEI for authoring ODD, includes the TEI module for creating ODD files and customizations ODD RNG allPlus TEI with with all modules included, plus all external additions ODD RNG TEI + SVG TEI with SVG ODD RNG TEI + Math TEI with MathML ODD RNG TEI + XInclude TEI with XInclude (experimental) ODD RNG

TEI Community Customizations A P5 customization for encoding epigraphic materials (Guidelines and SourceForge site) A P4 customization for detailed encoding of letters (Project site and DTD files) A P4 customization for encoding editions of historical documents (Project, guidelines, reference manual, DTDs)