TEI P4 Document Type

The TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) document type 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.

File Definition

A file is considered to be a TEI P4 document when one of the following conditions are true:

  • The local name of the root is TEI.2.
  • The public id of the document is -//TEI P4.

Default Document Templates

Some default TEI P4 templates are available when creating new documents from templates, including Lite and P4 Document.

The default templates for TEI P4 documents are located in the [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/tei/templates/TEI P4 folder.

Default Schema

The default schema that is used if one is not detected in the TEI P4 document is tei2.dtd and it is stored in [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/tei/xml/teip4/schema/dtd/.

Default XML Catalogs

The default catalogs for the TEI P4 document type are as follows:

  • [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/tei/xml/teip4/schema/dtd/catalog.xml
  • [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/tei/xml/teip4/custom/schema/dtd/catalog.xml
  • [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/frameworks/tei/xml/teip4/stylesheet/catalog.xml

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