Check validity early and often; save early and often.
There is no one right
way to view
an encoded file. The following are provided as ideas
of how one might like one's TEI file to look.
We have included a copy of TEI Boilerplate, a lightweight system for displaying TEI documents. While TEI Boilerplate is a wonderful system, it is in no way a definitive representation of how your file should look (that's up to you and your project); it's just one group of TEI encders idea of what you might like.
To use TEI Boilerplate, just open your TEI file from within a modern browser.
We have included a copy of CETEIcean, another lightwight system for displaying TEI documents in a browser. CETEIcean is very much like TEI Boilerplate, the major difference being it uses Javascript instead of XSLT.
To use CETEIcean, create a copy of exercise_template.html and edit it, changing the name of the XML file loaded (roughly line 20) to the one you'd like to view. Then open that edited version in a browser.
We have provided a template CSS2 file that does not produce pretty output, but rather gives you a place to inserto your own CSS properties and values to get pretty output. It is called tiny_TEI_template.css. To use it, comment out or delete the line
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="teibp.xsl"?>
wich should be around line 4 or so, and then open your XML file from within a browser.
We have also provided a couple of CSS files intended to show off various features of TEI files. These CSS files may or may not be interesting on your file. To try them, follow the instructions for Viewing with your own CSS, above, and then:
tiny_TEI_template.csswith
inspect.cssfor a sort of
bird's-eye viewof your document
ography.cssfor a quick overview of your contextual information encoding
ugly_TEI_template.cssfor a fast-and-lousy TEI rendering