TEI by Example Module 8: Customising TEI, ODD, Roma Ron Van den Branden Edward Vanhoutte Melissa Terras Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), University College London, UK Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King’s College London, UK Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium
ctb@kantl.be Edward Vanhoutte Melissa Terras Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium Gent
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium

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9 July 2010 TEI By Example. Edward Vanhoutte Ron Van den Branden Melissa Terras

Digitally born

TEI By Example offers a series of freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive tests and exercises.

 en-GB integrated examples in a single file
Abolishing Numbered Text Divisions

Following ODD file defines a minimal TEI schema (containing the core, tei, header, and textstructure modules). Besides that, it does away with numbered text divisions (div1, ..., div7) by specifying the value delete for the mode attribute on their respective elementSpec declarations.

Notice that strictly speaking, only deletion of div1 is necessary, as all further numbered subdivisions should nest according to the TEI scheme. By definition, if the topmost level is deleted, all further subdivisions are practically excluded from the document model. Although they are still declared, they can’t be used in documents according to this schema. Additionally, notice how this list of separate elementSpec instructions could be expressed more concisely as:

numbered divisions The TBE crew

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This customisation only selects the minimal TEI modules, and deletes all numbered subdivisions.

 TBE-crafted example encoding, no material source.
Van den Branden, Ron and Martin Holmes. 2014. Journal of the Text-Encoding Initiative Article Schema. Schema and guidelines for encoding an article for the journal. .