Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>  There's an HTML version of these 
> guidelines at:
>
> http://www.diglib.org/standards/tei.htm
>
>   
Thanks for the link, Kevin. The HTML document contains also a link to a 
"TEI-compliant" version, which (on a cursory glance) has some rather 
dubious tagging in it, ironically enough.

> For a header creation utility, I recommend using a web-based or even 
> desktop client database program, which allows you to easily create forms 
> that allow users to enter fielded data.  Then you can export your data 
> into XML, transforming to TEI using XSLT.
The only problem with this approach is that you are creating for 
yourself the headache of converting between whatever structure your 
"fielded data" expects and the TEI structure. So maintaining/updating 
the data in TEI XML gets complicated.

Why not use a proper XML template in the first place?
>   Our system is even less elegant 
> than this, but this is what we're moving towards.
>
>   
Tell us about your "even less elegant" system -- you're among friends!

> Kevin
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