Using the TEI Sourceforge Repository

Extensions and Customizations Development Module

The Extensions and Customizations Development Module provides a location for dissemination of well-known Extensions and Customizations to the TEI DTD.

None of the customizations or extensions to the TEI should be assumed to reflect the current state of the projects, but are provided as examples of how others have customized the TEI schema in the past.

Internationalisation Development Package

This package produces a location for the dissemination, experimentation, and development of TEI's internationalisation movements. Primarily, this consists of the translation of elements, attributes, and their descriptions into other languages. This allows projects to employ coders using their native language to do markup but have it easily translated back to international 'English' TEI. Current languages under development include: English, French, German and Spanish. However, others are planned, if you want to help out, ask about doing so on the TEI-L mailing list.

P5 Guidelines and Schema Development Package

This package contains the source files for the development version of the TEI Guidelines and associated schemas. Inside the P5 subversion the sources of the English chapters of the Guidelines are in Source/Guidelines/en/. To allow for internationalization, if translations of the Guidelines are made available they will be located in the same place but under their ISO two-letter language code. The source files of the Guidelines also reference separate specifications of elements, attributes and classes which are maintained in a separate directory Source/Specs/ with internationlization handled internally. Each of these files are in the TEI ODD (One Document Does it all) format. This is a TEI format specifically intended for writing guidelines about encoding, from which schemas and reference documentation can be automatically extracted.

As part of the P5 subversion module, a Makefile is provided to help generate HTML versions of the TEI Guidelines, create compiled schemas and DTDs, amongst various other possibilities. There are a number of variables that one can change at the beginning of the Makefile. Some of the more important of these are: TEISERVER This is the eXist server storing TEI files used by the fascicule target. Either internet access or a locally served TEI eXist database is needed to use this target. By default this is: http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Query/ PREFIX This is the default location under which you wish to install files locally if you use the 'install' target. By default this is: /usr XSL This is the location of the XSLT stylesheets required for the transformation of ODD files. By default this points to the location of the stylesheets as installed by the TEI Debian Packages: /usr/share/xml/tei/stylesheet however, if you want to use a remote copy of the stylesheets you may wish to change this. One option is to use the stylesheets on the TEI website: http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/stylesheet/ as the value of this variable. ROMAOPTS This variable is used to pass options to Roma such as the local source file for the TEI Guidelines. By default this is "--localsource=${DRIVER}.xml" DRIVER This points to the available local source file for the TEI Guidelines. By default this is "${LANGTREE}/guidelines-${LANGUAGE}.xml", and changing LANGTREE and LANGUAGE would allow the generation of the guidelines in different languages if the source files for those languages exist.

The makefile has a number of requirements, these include internet access (or a local copy of the stylesheets), and up-to-date versions of the perl, jing, trang, xmllint and xsltproc programs. If you do not have these installed then many of the make targets will not work. Fortunately, there is a target which will check to make sure you have these installed: make check. Some of the more important targets are listed below:

Makefile Targets check Usage: make check

This target checks to see whether you have perl, jing, trang, xmllint, and xsltproc installed.

default Usage: make

This is the default target and creates the TEI P5 schemas in RELAX NG & DTD and the HTML version of the Guidelines.

convert Usage: make convert

This target creates the TEI P5 schemas in RELAX NG & DTD.

dtds Usage: make dtds

This target creates DTDs for TEI P5 in the DTD/ directory.

schemas Usage: make schemas

This target creates RELAX NG Schemas for TEI P5 in the Schema/ directory.

html Usage: make html

This target creates an HTML version of the TEI Guidelines in the Guidelines/ directory.

xml Usage: make xml

This target creates a TEI Lite (P5) XML version of the Guidelines as Guidelines.xml in the current directory (i.e., P5/) as well as also making the exemplars listed further below.

split Usage: make split

This target creates a set of TEI P5 ODD files, with entities resolved, that are a version of the Guidelines split into chapters, in the split/ directory.

clean Usage: make clean

This target removes most of the files created by the other targets.

install Usage: make install

This target installs a separate local copy of the DTDs, Schema, and HTML version of the guidelines under the file path given by the PREFIX variable (see , above) .

exemplars Usage: make exemplars

This target uses Roma to create the DTDs and Schemas from a number of exemplary ODD files in the Exemplars directory. The exemplars target will create DTDs, XML Schemas, and both compact and xml versions of RELAX NG Schemas for the customizations based on the following ODD files:

tei_all.odd TEI with maximal setup

The full TEI setup with almost everything you could possibly want included.

tei_corpus.odd TEI with corpus

An example setup for basic copora using TEI or teiCorpus as the starting element.

tei_dictionaries.odd TEI customization for dictionaries

An experimental customization of the TEI for Dictionaries, this ODD includes a detailed example of the addition of an element.

tei_drama.odd TEI with drama

An example setup which includes drama and linking modules.

tei_examples.odd TEI for TEI examples

This ODD demonstrates the creation of egXML with the inclusion of MathML and RELAX NG as possibilities.

teilite.odd The TEI Lite customization

This is the ODD for the popular example customization TEI Lite. It is entitled "Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI".

tei_minimal.odd TEI with minimal setup

A very minimal TEI customization, with only the header, core, tei and textstructure modules. If you only want to use elements that appear in the core modules, then this is the customization for you!

tei_ms.odd TEI for manuscript description

This example customization for manuscript description includes, in addition to the basic modules, those for names and dates, transcription, and manuscript description.

tei_odd.odd TEI with ODD elements

This customization adds the ODD (One Document Does it all) tagset documentation module and changes the content of egXML.

tei_oucs.odd TEI with OUCS setup

This complex customization is given as an example of how the Oxford University Computing Services use the TEI for authoring its website. See http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ to see documents validated against schemas generated from this ODD.

Roma: TEI-Conformant Validator (DTD, RELAX NG or W3C Schema) Creator Development

The Roma tool allows creation of TEI-Conformant Validators in the form of DTD, RELAX NG or W3C Schemas. This can be used to customize the TEI Schema by adding, removing, renaming elements and/or attributes. This can also be used to generate specialised documentation for this customization containing only the elements specified, or can be output in foreign languages if available. Roma uses TEI P5 and (in addition to its command-line version available in the Roma subversion module) there is also a web interface at http://www.tei-c.org/Roma/ which allows an easy form-filling method of generating the schemas and documentation. Roma uses the ODD format as its base and so any customizations can be saved in this form for later re-use or refinement.

TEI XSL Stylesheets Package

This package provides a location for the dissemination and development of XSLT stylesheets produced by the TEI. The TEI Wiki provides a location for stylesheets produced by others for TEI documents.

The TEI XSL Stylesheets enable one to transform XML documents to HTML, to LaTeX, and to XSL Formatting Objects. The latter two of these are frequently used to transform TEI XML into PDF format. The XSL FO style sheets were developed for use with PassiveTeX (, a system using XSL formatting objects to render XML to PDF via LaTeX, and have also been tested with Render X and Antenna House implementations.

Significantly more detailed information is available concerning the TEI XSL Stylesheets on the TEI website http://www.tei-c.org/Stylesheets/teic/ and advice is available via the TEI-L mailing list.

The Makefile provided with the TEI XSL Stylesheets has no default make target. The most usable two make targets are: install Installs the P4 and P5 xsl stylesheets in /usr or wherever you have set the 'PREFIX' variable at the beginning of the Makefile. dist This creates a release subdirectory of both P4 and P5 sets of files.

For the more technically interested, the stylesheets have internal documentation, using P&P Software's XSLTdoc system; the results can be browsed in the on the technical documentation section of the TEI Stylesheets website.

TEI Customization of Emacs

This package is a setup for the widely used open source GNU Emacs editor to provide a single all-singing all-dancing TEI Editing Environment. The files included are Elisp packages; a Debian package is available for installation on Linux, where it will interact with existing TEI and Emacs setups. For MS-Windows a complete self-contained package of Emacs and all the TEI stylesheets and setup is available ().

TEI Emacs is maintained by Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford) and Christian Wittern (Kyoto). Its main intention is to provide a good basic editing environment for TEI files. It uses NXML mode to provide continual incremental schema-based validation. For more information on installation and use of tei-emacs see http://www.tei-c.org/Software/tei-emacs/.

TEI OpenOffice (and similar) SaveAs TEI XML Filter Development Package

This package brings together various filters for saving word-processing documents as TEI XML. There are currently filters to and from OpenOffice and TEI Lite, but there are plans for some filters for Microsoft Word. For more information on installation of the TEI - OpenOffice filters see

Example: Installation of Stylesheets, P5, and Roma packages

This is a step-by-step example of installation of the Stylesheets, P5, and Roma packages. This should give most people a working copy of the main TEI deliverables. These steps assume a linux system and command-line svn client, and installs everything in the "/tmp/tei/" directory. You should modify this to reflect where you want to put things on your particular system.

Create and move into a directory for your TEI files mkdir /tmp/tei ; cd /tmp/tei Check out a copy of Stylesheets package svn co https://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tei/trunk/Stylesheets ./Stylesheets Check out a copy of P5 package svn co https://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tei/trunk/P5 ./P5 Check out a copy of Roma package svn co https://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tei/trunk/Roma ./Roma Go into Stylesheets directory and install the stylesheets cd Stylesheets ; make PREFIX=/tmp/tei install ; cd .. Go into Roma directory and install Roma cd Roma ; make PREFIX=/tmp/tei install ; cd .. Go into P5 directory and install the TEI Guidelines and Schemas cd P5 ; make PREFIX=/tmp/tei XSL=/tmp/tei/share/xml/tei/stylesheet install ; cd .. Go into P5 directory and create the exemplar DTDs and Schemas cd P5; make exemplars; cd ..

This should provide you with a working TEI hierarchy in /tmp/tei/ (or whatever you changed that to on each command) with the TEI P5 Guidelines and Schemas, the TEI XSL Stylesheets, and a copy of Roma. It should also leave you a copy of the schemas for the most popular TEI customizations in P5/Exemplars/. More information on using these deliverables is available from the TEI website.

Note: It is also possible to retrieve all of the modules from the TEI subversion repository with: svn co https://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tei/trunk ./TEI