Text encoding is the process of selecting and marking specific aspects of a text using a machine-readable markup language, such as XML. Based on XML, the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) has become the standard coding guideline for the digital representation of literary texts through descriptive markup. 

Out-of-the-Box

• Roma
  For generating P5-compatible schemas and documentation, TEI customization development

• TEIGarage
  For managing the conversion between TEI documents and a variety of formats

• Data Dictionary Generator
  For generating encoding documentation by creating profiles of every element and attribute appearing in a TEI file

• Oxygen XML Editor
  For creating, editing, and publish XML documents

• Code Browser
  For navigating and editing source code

• Notepad++
  For editing source code

• Bauman, Syd, and Julia Flanders. "Resources for Learning and Teaching Text Encoding." Women Writers Project.

• Cummings, James. 2008. “The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature.” In Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture), edited by Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens, Hardcover. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional. 

• Drucker, Johanna. “Text Encoding: Mark-up and TEI.” Introduction to Digital Humanities, September, 2013. 

• Mason, Austin. “8. Text Analysis and the TEI." Hacking the Humanities, January 29, 2015.

• Singer, Kate. “Digital Close Reading: TEI for Teaching Poetic Vocabularies.” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 3 (2013).

• TEI by Example

•  The Whitman Archive