TEI with Music Notation (MEI)

This is a collection of ODD documents to generate TEI with MEI XML schemas using Roma (command line only). Pre-generated RelaxNGs are included.

The MEI source is up-to-date with the 2013 release. N.B. It has been altered to include internal prefixes to avoid conflicts with TEI elements with the same name.

For more information visit:

• The TEI Music SIG webspace
• The TEI with Music Notation Guidelines
• The TEI Music SIG wiki

Generating Schemata

To generate a new schema, you will need to use the TEI Stylesheets.

If you have a Unix machine, use the teitorelaxng script provided with the stylesheets:

$ bin/teitorelaxng PATH_TO/tei-mei/tei_mei.xml PATH_TO/tei-mei/schemata/tei_mei.rng

Creating new ODDs

There are two things to keep in mind:

• To load MEI modules, use @source

<moduleRef key="MEI" source="mei-source.xml"/>

• the elementSpec for notatedMusic must be changed to include MEI at various levels. See any of the ODDs as an example.

If you create a new ODD, please consider forking this repo and sending a pull request!

Updating MEI version

The process to update to another MEI version, elements and classes in the MEI ODD must be prefixed to avoid conflicts with TEI elements and classes.

• Get the MEI source from GitHub.
• Run utils/add_prefixes.xsl to generate a new mei-source.xml with prefixes.