Just the words
author: Lou Burnard
language: en
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This customization creates a TEI schema with the bare minimum of tags to make a recognizable document, which can then be made unrecognisable by addition of word-level linguistic analysis.

Basic text structure

In this very simple schema, a document contains just a <body>, though this may be subdivided using nested <div> elements. Within the <div> elements only <head> and <p> elements are permitted.

The <head> and <p> elements have the same structure: they must contain at least one <s> element, representing a sentence-like unit. The <s> element can contain any number of <w> or <pc> elements, representing lexical and punctuation tokens respectively. To make formatting easier, white space is also permitted within <s> elements.

The following specification group deletes all the unwanted elements:

<abbr>

<add>

<addrLine>

<address>

<altIdent>

<analytic>

<bibl>

<biblFull>

<biblItem>

<biblScope>

<biblStruct>

<binaryObject>

<cb>

<choice>

<cit>

<corr>

<date>

<dateRange>

<del>

<desc>

<distinct>

<divGen>

<email>

<editor>

<emph>

<equiv>

<expan>

<foreign>

<gap>

<gloss>

<graphic>

<headItem>

<headLabel>

<hi>

<imprint>

<index>

<item>

<l>

<lb>

<lg>

<listBibl>

<list>

<measure>

<meeting>

<mentioned>

<milestone>

<monogr>

<name>

<note>

<num>

<orig>

<pb>

<postBox>

<postCode>

<ptr>

<pubPlace>

<publisher>

<q>

<quote>

<ref>

<reg>

<resp>

<respStmt>

<rs>

<series>

<sic>

<soCalled>

<sp>

<speaker>

<stage>

<street>

<teiCorpus>

<term>

<time>

<timeRange>

<unclear>

<argument>

<byline>

<closer>

<dateline>

<div0>

<div1>

<div2>

<div3>

<div4>

<div5>

<div6>

<div7>

<docAuthor>

<docDate>

<docEdition>

<docImprint>

<docTitle>

<epigraph>

<floatingText>

<group>

<imprimatur>

<opener>

<salute>

<signed>

<titlePage>

<titlePart>

<trailer>

<said>

<measureGrp>

<relatedItem>

<appInfo>

<application>

<geoDecl>

<postscript>

<title>
@level

<TEI>
@version

Header structure

A much simplified version of the TEI Header is defined, again by the deletion of many elements. For validity, all that is required within it is the <fileDesc>, which contains only the following elements:

Within the <titleStmt> only a <title> is permitted; within the other two elements only a <p> is permitted. The @default attribute on the <sourceDesc> element is also removed.

The following specification group deletes all the other possible elements from the header:

<authority>

<availability>

<broadcast>

<cRefPattern>

<catDesc>

<catRef>

<category>

<change>

<classCode>

<classDecl>

<correction>

<creation>

<distributor>

<edition>

<editorialDecl>

<encodingDesc>

<equipment>

<fsdDecl>

<funder>

<hyphenation>

<idno>

<interpretation>

<keywords>

<langUsage>

<language>

<metDecl>

<metSym>

<namespace>

<normalization>

<principal>

<profileDesc>

<projectDesc>

<quotation>

<recording>

<recordingStmt>

<refsDecl>

<rendition>

<revisionDesc>

<samplingDecl>

<scriptStmt>

<segmentation>

<sponsor>

<state>

<stdVals>

<tagUsage>

<tagsDecl>

<taxonomy>

<textClass>

<variantEncoding>

<sourceDesc>
@default

Class modifications

Finally three of the TEI attribute classes are simplified. The attributes xml:space, rend, and xml:base are removed from the att.global class, so that this now makes available to all elements only the following attributes: @xml:id, @n, and @xml:lang.

Three un-needed attributes are removed from the att.divLike class so that the <div> element inherits from it only the following attributes: @xml:id, @n, @xml:lang. The attribute class att.declaring is deleted completely, so that none of its members inherit the @decls attribute defined in the unmodified TEI.

att.global
@xml:space
@rend
@xml:base

att.divLike
@org
@sample
@part

att.declaring

Formal declaration