The TEI P4 document type

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines is an international and interdisciplinary standard that enables libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to represent a variety of literary and linguistic texts for online research, teaching, and preservation.

Association rules

A file is considered to be a TEI P4 document when either of the following occurs:

  • the root's local name is TEI.2

  • the document's public id is -//TEI P4