8 Base Tag Set for Prose

This chapter describes the base tag set for prose texts, the simplest of the base tag sets defined by these Guidelines. It should be used for all texts in prose, whether fiction or non-fiction, novel or technical manual.

Prose material can appear in the front and back matter of virtually any text type, even where the body may be composed of very different component elements. Consequently, the elements needed to encode conventional prose are all included in the core tag set described in chapter 6 ) and the base tag set for prose itself defines no elements at all: it merely invokes the tag set for default text structure. When this base tag set is used, all the elements defined in the core tag sets are available, as are those in the default text structure described in chapter 7 . No other elements are available, unless one or more of the additional tag sets is also enabled.

The base tag set for prose should be invoked by defining the parameter entity tei.prose with the value ``INCLUDE''. A document using this base tag set and no other will thus being as follows:

 <!DOCTYPE tei.2 PUBLIC "-//TEI P3//DTD Main Document Type//EN"
                        "tei2.dtd" [
    <!ENTITY % tei.prose 'INCLUDE' >
 ]>

The base tag set for prose is formally defined by the following DTD fragment:

<!-- 8:  Base Tag Set for Prose                               -->
<!-- Text Encoding Initiative: Guidelines for Electronic      -->
<!-- Text Encoding and Interchange. Document TEI P3, 1994.    -->

<!-- Copyright (c) 1994 ACH, ACL, ALLC. Permission to copy    -->
<!-- in any form is granted, provided this notice is          -->
<!-- included in all copies.                                  -->

<!-- These materials may not be altered; modifications to     -->
<!-- these DTDs should be performed as specified in the       -->
<!-- Guidelines in chapter "Modifying the TEI DTD."           -->

<!-- These materials subject to revision. Current versions    -->
<!-- are available from the Text Encoding Initiative.         -->

<!-- This base tag set does nothing but declare and embed     -->
<!-- the default text structure. When it is selected,         -->
<!-- therefore, the only tags available are those in the      -->
<!-- core and those defined in other selected tag sets.       -->


<![ %TEI.singleBase [
<!ENTITY % TEI.structure.dtd system 'teistr2.dtd'               >
%TEI.structure.dtd;
]]&nil;>