TEI: Get the P5 Guidelines

The TEI Guidelines, including the TEI schemas, the TEI source code, and the prose documentation, are published as open source software. They can be accessed and downloaded in a variety of forms, depending on how you want to use them. In general, they are available from the download area of the TEI project page at Sourceforge. Some other methods of getting and using the Guidelines are discussed below.

Read online documentation

The text of the Guidelines may be read online at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/.

Get and install a local copy

The source code and other TEI materials (including beta and experimental releases) can be downloaded from Sourceforge; more detailed instructions for downloading and using these materials are available as well. The most stable recent release of the TEI materials can also be accessed by navigating the hierarchy at http://www.tei-c.org/release/, and are available as Debian packages at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/. The entire set of TEI materials is also available on CD-ROM at TEI events.

Build a schema from the source

You can also build TEI schemas and documentation (including customized versions) using Roma. Detailed instructions for using Roma and for installing the command-line version are available.

Other points of access

The TEI schemas are now distributed with the <oXygen/> XML editor, together with a set of basic TEI templates.

A printed version of the P5 Guidelines will be published following their formal release.