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Paper

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Date of Presentation

Wednesday, 22 May

Time of Presentation

16.45

Presentation Level

Technical

Abstract

The Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines are the product of an ambitious international research project dating from the early 1990s, the goal of which was to provide generic but detailed recommendations for the mark-up of electronic documents, in particular texts from the literary and linguistic domains. The project was one of the first large-scale attempts to apply then-emerging markup technologies to traditional scholarly and research concerns, and has had considerable impact, both within academia and beyond. The original TEI project concluded with a detailed publication, presented at SGML Europe in 1994, and subsequently revised in 1996. In 2001, the TEI was reorganized as a membership Consortium, and began work on a new XML-based release of its work, due for publication in April 2002. This release (P4) will be the last to retain compatibility with the original SGML version of the Guidelines. Future releases of the Guidelines, it seems probable, will be expressed using some form of schema-based markup rather than XML DTDs. In this paper we report on preliminary work undertaken into the feasibility of using the existing abstractions underlying the Guidelines to generate XML schemas, conventional DTDs, or the Relax NG schemas, according to need.