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 Thu, 15 Jul 04Syd Bauman 11 Apr 2002Lou 7 Dec 2001Lou 15th October 2001Sebastian Rahtz 30 May 2001Lou Burnard
The TEI P4 DTD files

From this page you can download current versions for all the files which make up the current version of the TEI DTD. For information about how these DTD fragments should be used and how these files interact, you need to read the Guidelines themselves. For a brief overview of the files in the DTD, please see Chapter 36 of the TEI Guidelines, from which the table below is reproduced.

The TEI DTD files can be customized in many different ways, to make large or small DTDs according to need. TEI Lite is one such customization of the whole; its DTD files are at www.tei-c.org/Lite/DTD; Master is another such customization, and there are many others. Full reference information on how to perform such customization (using TEI Lite as an example) is provided in Chapter 29 of the Guidelines.

Experimental work is currently underway to investigate the automatic production of Relax NG schemas for use with the TEI Guidelines.

Moving from P3 to P4

If you are still using the P3 DTDs and wish to upgrade you can choose to either use P4 as SGML or P4 as XML. The TEI strongly recommends the latter, and the NEH-funded TEI Migration Task Force has written extensive reports on the process of migrating from P3 to P4 XML. They can be found on what is affectionately called the migration page.

If you wish to try the P4 DTDs in your current SGML environment, you can do so by either of the following methods: replace the system identifiers in your local files by a link to the new version at (mutatis mutandis) http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/DTD/tei2.dtd (see examples below); download and install all the new dtd files locally, changing the system identifiers to point to these local versions. The complete suite is available as a single archive file.

Neither the actual filenames (teicore2.dtd etc.) used nor the method of constructing application specific DTDs has changed with this release. For example, if you currently test files using a driver that begins ... ]> ... ]]> and you have not yet changed the contents of home/wherever/mylocalteistuff, then you could experiment with the new DTDs simply by changing your driver file to reference the online version. The file would then begin: ]> ... ]]>

The TEI editors are particularly anxious to receive reports of errors with documents that were regarded as valid by previous releases of the TEI DTDs, but which the new DTDs will not accept. Send feedback of any kind to editors@tei-c.org, or, if you want to discuss issues raised more widely with other TEI users, to tei-tech@listserv.brown.edu. Thank you!

The TEI DTD files

The following tables give for each of the files making up the current release: the filename used in the release directory; the type of declarations contained in the module; the full name of the module, for use in constructing its Formal Public Identifer (FPI) a link to the chapter or section in which it is defined . To make up the Formal Public Identifier, the full name of the module should be prefixed by the string -//TEI P4// and the type of declarations contained, and suffixed by the string //EN. Thus the FPI for the first file listed below should be -//TEI P4//ELEMENTS Additional Element Set for Simple Analysis//EN. Each table corresponds with a single TEI module or tag set i.e. a group of related DTD fragments. Tables are listed in alphabetical order.

Additional tag set for simple analysis: enabled by TEI.analysisteiana2.dtdELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Simple AnalysisChapter 15teiana2.entENTITIESElement Classes for Simple AnalysisChapter 15
Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabledteiback2.dtd ELEMENTSBack MatterSection 7.6 teiclas2.ent ENTITIESTEI ElementClasses Section 3.7teicore2.dtd ELEMENTSCore ElementsChapter 6teifron2.dtd ELEMENTSFront MatterSection 7.4teihdr2.dtd ELEMENTSTEI HeaderChapter 5teistr2.dtd ELEMENTSDefault Text StructureChapter 7
Additional tag set for certainty: enabled by TEI.certaintyteicert2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Certainty and ResponsibilityChapter 17
Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpusteicorp2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Language CorporaChapter 23
Base tag set for dictionaries: enabled by TEI.dictionaryteidict2.dtd ELEMENTSBase Element Set for Print DictionariesChapter 12teidict2.ent ENTITIESElement Classes for Print DictionariesChapter 12
Base tag set for performance texts: enabled by TEI.dramateidram2.dtd ELEMENTSBase Element Set for Drama 2001-12Chapter 10teidram2.ent ENTITIESElement Classes for DramaChapter 10
Additional tag set for figures, tables and formulae: enabled by TEI.figuresteifig2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Tables, Formulae, and GraphicsChapter 22teifig2.ent ENTITIESFormulae Notations and ContentsChapter 22
Auxiliary DTD for Feature System Declarationsteifsd2.dtd DTDAuxiliary Document Type: Feature System DeclarationChapter 26
Additional tag set for feature structures: enabled by TEI.fsteifs2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Feature Structure AnnotationChapter 16
General Base tag set, for use with one or more other base tag sets: enabled by TEI.generalteigen2.dtd ELEMENTSGeneral Base Element SetSection 3.4
The TEI main DTD tei2.dtd DTDMain DTD Driver FileChapter 3teigis2.ent ENTITIESGeneric IdentifiersSection 3.8teikey2.ent ENTITIESTEI KeywordsSection 3.8
Additional tag set for Linking and Segmentation: enabled by TEI.linkingteilink2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Linking, Segmentation, and AlignmentChapter 14teilink2.ent ENTITIESElement Classes for Linking, Segmentation, and AlignmentChapter 14 Mixed base tag set, for use with one or more other base tag sets: enabled by TEI.mixedteimix2.dtd ELEMENTSBase Element Set for Mixed Text TypesSection 3.4
Additional tag set for Names and Dates: enabled by TEI.names.datesteind2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Names and DatesChapter 20teind2.ent ENTITIESElement Classes for Names and DatesChapter 20
Additional tag set for Graph Theory: enabled by TEI.netsteinet2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Graphs, Networks, and TreesChapter 21
Base tag set for Prose: enabled by TEI.proseteipros2.dtd ELEMENTSBase Element Set for ProseChapter 8
Auxiliary DTD for Independent Headersteishd2.dtd DTDAuxiliary Document Type: Independent TEI HeaderChapter 24
Base tag set for Transcribed Speech: enabled by TEI.spokenteispok2.dtd ELEMENTSBase Element Set for Transcriptions of SpeechChapter 18teispok2.ent ENTITIESElement Classes for Transcriptions of SpeechChapter 18
Additional tag set for Textual Criticism: enabled by TEI.textcritteitc2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Text-Critical ApparatusChapter 19teitc2.ent ENTITIESElement Classes for Critical ApparatusChapter 19
Base tag sets for Terminological Data: enabled by TEI.terminologyteiterm2.dtd ELEMENTSBase Element Set for Terminological DataChapter 13teiterm2.entENTITIESElement Classes for Terminological DataChapter 13teite2f.dtd ELEMENTSTerminological Databases (Flat)Chapter 13teite2n.dtd ELEMENTSTerminological Databases (Nested)Chapter 13
Additional tag set for Physical Transcription: enabled by TEI.transcrteitran2.dtd ELEMENTSAdditional Element Set for Transcription of Primary SourcesChapter 18teitran2.ent ENTITIESElement Classes for Transcription of Primary SourcesChapter 18
Auxiliary DTD for Tag Set documentationteitsd2.dtd DTDAuxiliary Document Type: Tag Set DocumentationChapter 27
Base tag set for Verse: enabled by TEI.verseteivers2.dtd ELEMENTSBase Element Set for VerseChapter 9teivers2.ent ENTITIESElement Classes for VerseChapter 9
Auxiliary tag set for Writing System Declarationsteiwsd2.dtd DTDAuxiliary Document Type: Writing System DeclarationChapter 25
Auxiliary tag set for concurrent markup of pages and linesteipl2.dtd DTDConcurrent Document Type: Pages and LinesChapter 31

Two catalog files are provided with the TEI DTD fragments, one (catalog.tei) in SGML Open format; the other (teicatalog.xml) in XML Catalog format: either file may be used to specify the location of copies of the TEI DTD fragments stored locally, as further discussed in Section 2.10.4.