The Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative are generally recognized in the digital humanities as important and foundational standards for many types of research in the field. The TEI Guidelines are generalistic, seeking to enable the largest possible user base encoding digital texts for a wide range of purposes. Consulting on many TEI-based projects, teaching TEI workshops, and volunteering as part of the TEI Technical Council, I have encountered many myths, misconceptions, and misunderstandings about the TEI. Indeed, one plenary lecturer once claimed ‘the problem with the TEI is it has too many tags and there is no way to change it’. Inspired by myths such as this, this article will detail common misconceptions about the TEI that I have encountered, concentrating on those technical myths that will help increase knowledge about the TEI misconceptions along the way. The article ends with a consideration of why these myths might have arisen, and what might be able to be done about them. .................................................................................................................................................................................

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差异化的世界：关于TEI的神话和误解

文本编码倡议的指南在数字人文领域通常被认为是该领域许多类型研究的重要基础标准。TEI指南具有通用性，旨在为各种目的使最大可能的用户群对数字文本进行编码。作为TEI技术委员会的一部分，我咨询了许多基于TEI的项目，教授TEI讲习班以及自愿参加TEI技术委员会，我遇到了许多关于TEI的神话，误解和误解。确实，一位全体讲师曾经宣称“ TEI的问题是标签太多，无法更改它”。受到诸如此类神话的启发，本文将详细介绍我遇到的关于TEI的常见误解，专注于技术神话，这将有助于在此过程中增加对TEI误解的认识。本文最后考虑了为什么可能会出现这些神话，以及如何对它们进行处理。................................................... ................................................... ................................................... ....................................