Hi Heather,

Greenstone will certainly work with TEI input documents, you just need a
plugin for importing them into the system.

I had a go at writing a TEI plugin for someone a few months ago. You can
download it from http://greenstone.org/tmp/TEIPlug.pm. Note that the
plugin only supports the TEI features used by the collection I was
working on at the time, it's by no means a complete implementation.
Having said that, it should be relatively easy to customise for your
needs.

I don't know much about TEI so have a couple of questions.

1. Is "TEI for libraries" some kind of well defined subset of TEI? Is it
similar to TEI Lite?

2. Is "TEI for libraries" widely used? Should we consider creating fully
featured Greenstone plugins for TEI for libraries and TEI lite? -- From
what little I've read about TEI it seems unrealistic to expect to create
a plugin that handles the entire standard, it's just too big. Do you
agree?

As a quick and dirty alternative to creating a plugin to import your TEI
documents you might consider converting them to HTML then using the
standard HTMLPlug plugin to import them. At
http://www.tei-c.org/Software/index.html there is mention of a tool for
converting TEI to HTML. You probably won't get such good results but it
might be worth a try.

regards,
Stefan.