An Example: TEI
Let us take a break now from terminology and see an actual example. The document to format is a Shakespearean sonnet encoded in TEI-XML, a markup language for scholarly documents, shown in Example 8-2. It consists of a header section with title and other metadata, followed by the text itself, which is broken into individual lines of poetry.
Example 8-2. A TEI-XML document
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE TEI.2 SYSTEM "http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/lite/teixlite.dtd"> <TEI.2> <!-- The metadata. TEI has a rich vocabulary for describing a document, which is important for scholarly work. --> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt><title>Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?</title> <author>William Shakespeare</author> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <p> Electronic version by Erik Ray 2003-03-09. This transcription is in the public domain. </p> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>Shakespeare's Sonnets XVIII.</p> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> </teiHeader> <!-- The body of the document, where the sonnet lives. <lg> is a group of lines, and <l> is a line of text. --> <text> <body> <lg> <l>Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?</l> <l>Thou art more lovely and more temperate:</l> <l>Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,</l> <l>And summer's lease hath all too short a date:</l> <l>Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,</l> <l>And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;</l> <l>And every fair from fair sometime declines,</l> <l>By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;</l> ...
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