Why Baseline Encoding?

Texts of projects, which are published in TextGrid, enable the following search options:

1. the project specific search allows queries only in texts of the project in question, whereas those responsible for the project are able to adapt search masks and presentation of results to the specific demands of their project;
2. the TextGrid intertextual search offers an intertextual search within all projects in TextGrid.

For the former, projects can exploit all features of the TEI encoding (or the even less restrained XML format). For the latter, however, it is necessary to map project specific encodings on a common Baseline Encoding.
The mapping is reaslised by an Adaptor (e.g. an XSLT Stylesheet).