This is indeed a minimal tei header. But I believe we are talking about a
minimal TEI header DTD, i.e. one which supported *only* the elements
contained in the minimal header. Clearly, one could imagine  a modification
of the TEI that supported such headers, but would it really be that useful?

Surely the answer to the "I don't want to see all those tags" problem is to
tell your editing application to use (say) <text> as its root element rather
than <TEI.2>?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafal T. Prinke [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 31 March 2003 22:52
> To: Burnard Towers
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Pizza chef & SGML
>
>
> Burnard Towers wrote:
>
> > As a consequence, you cannot also remove the following elements
> > from a TEI DTD: date, name, note, p, respstmt, title without unleashing
> > zombies. (You cannot easily undefine text or body for similar but not
> > identical reasons)
> >
> > It's not clear what to do about this, if anything. Neither is it clear
> > exactly what a "minimal header" should contain, other than
> those elements,
> > of course.
>
> I was thinking about the minimum that is valid - which I believe is:
>
> <teiHeader>
>    <fileDesc>
>       <titleStmt>
>          <title> ... title ... </title>
>       </titleStmt>
>       <publicationStmt><p> ... </p></publicationStmt>
>       <sourceDesc><p> ... </p></sourceDesc>
>    </fileDesc>
> </teiHeader>
>
> So, if those you mention are added, would that make the
> "minimal header" that would not interfere with IGNORE/INCLUDE
> options offered by the chef?
>
> My reason for asking about this is primarily to be able
> to generate very limited DTD subsets which would be usable
> for taggers who are not always very enthusiastic about TEI
> (there are still a few such individuals around) but
> need to be trained to do the job. Also, such DTD's could
> be used for tagging specific items with a limited set of
> tags within a project that needs many more for all items
> involved. So if one is working with poems only at the time,
> it would be easier to pick a tag from a list of 5 than from
> one of 25 (whether in tei-emacs or some fancy "WYSINWYG").
> It would, obviously, have to be validated against
> a "master DTD" eventually, but may make life easier
> for the taggers.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rafal
>
>