General Character Entities at the WWP: main page

Last updated:

Tuesday, 09-Jan-2007 10:54:59 EST


An Introductory Note vis-a-vis TEI P3 Chapter 3

Of the eight base tag sets, the WWP uses only four: prose, verse, drama, and mixed. Among the additional tag sets, the WWP uses those for linking (Chapter 14), transcription of primary sources (Chapter 18), specialized tagging of names and dates (Chapter 20), and a few tags (chiefly <figure> and associated tags) from Chapter 22 (Tables, Formulae, and Graphics). Our WWP-specific modifications/additions to the TEI tagset are contained in the file wwpstore.dtd (which stands for WWP Storage DTD).

The WWP also adds a number of non-ISO general character entities. These are contained in the files wwpgrk1.ent and wwpspec.ent, which respectively stand for WWP Greek entities and WWP Special entities. In addition, the WWP embeds all the ISO entities. The over-arching file which embeds the ISO character entities (and also invokes the Greek and the special character entity files) is called wwpstore.ent. This file also takes care file and parameter entity declarations and changes to the TEI DTD.

As mentioned above, all WWP DTD files are invoked via the file wwpstore.dtd. Encoders need not worry too much about all this, since they can invoke the DTD properly using a public identifier, e.g.:

<!DOCTYPE TEI.2 PUBLIC "-//Brown University Women Writers Project//DTD WWP Textbase Storage DTD//EN">


Actual Entity Files


Artificial Files Helpful for Quick Searches


Carole_Mah@brown.edu
Tuesday, 09-Jan-2007 10:54:59 EST