Getting started using TEI

This is a draft Getting Started using TEI document. It is being rewritten as a series of articles to be published in the new TEI Extramural Journal. The first instalment is expected to appear summer 2010.

1 Getting started using TEI: What is TEI?
- 1.1 TEI: a very high-level overview
- 1.2 What this article series does, and what it does not
- 1.3 When to use and when not to use TEI?
  - 1.3.1 Why not just HTML?
  - 1.3.2 What is your material like?
  - 1.3.3 What is your desired output?
  - 1.3.4 How hard is learning TEI, and where do I get help?
  - 1.3.5 Do long-term benefits outweigh initial costs?
  - 1.3.6 But can markup do justice to my text?
  - 1.3.7 TEI and the history of digital text
- 1.4 Overall structure of a TEI text
  - 1.4.1 A text fragment
  - 1.4.2 The larger document structure
  - 1.4.3 Two refinements
    - 1.4.3.1 Attaching a facsimile
    - 1.4.3.2 Repurposeable notes about persons
- 1.5 Summary
- 1.6 Literature
- 1.7 Tutorials
2 Technical background
- 2.1 Text Encoding and XML
  - 2.1.1 What Is XML?
  - 2.1.2 XML Syntax in a Nutshell
  - 2.1.3 Rules for Structuring an XML Vocabulary
  - 2.1.4 XML Semantics
  - 2.1.5 Namespaces: Avoiding XML Vocabulary Collisions
    - 2.1.5.1 Namespace Prefixes
  - 2.1.6 Further Reading
- 2.2 XML on the Web
  - 2.2.1 Web Servers, Web Clients
  - 2.2.2 Styling the Web
  - 2.2.3 Limitations of HTML
  - 2.2.4 So... Why not Just Put XML on the Web?
  - 2.2.5 CSS to the Rescue?
- 2.3 Transforming XML
- 2.4 XSLT: A Practical Example
3 The rationale of declarative markup
4 Choosing and installing an editor
5 Load, modify, validate a complete ready-made document
- 5.1 Multiple views and modes
- 5.2 The schema
- 5.3 Modifying the document
- 5.4 Validation
- 5.5 And more...
6 Running stylesheets
7 Getting this to work on sample of own text
8 Defining, Creating and Using TEI Schema's
9 Where to go from here
10 Literature