# Text Encoding Initiative

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-encoding-initiative/520493>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-encoding-initiative/520493 "2009-12-08T20:08:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-encoding-initiative/520493/1 "2009-12-08T20:08:39Z")

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I have a SGM (XML) document which is encoded with:  
\<!DOCTYPE TEI.2 PUBLIC “-//TEI//DTD TEI Lite 1.0 //EN” “teilite.dtd”\>

Which has a Wiki: [Text Encoding Initiative](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative)

But how the heck do I open it to view it? I have tried various browsers, editors, TextMate, TextWrangler and a tool called Oxyget-Author. All without success. At best I just get the XML tags.

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**Author:** ![mbetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mbetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbetter)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-encoding-initiative/520493/2 "2009-12-08T20:17:11Z")

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Try this:

[http://teiviewer.org/download/](http://teiviewer.org/download/)

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**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-encoding-initiative/520493/3 "2009-12-08T20:56:24Z")

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Thanks