The TEI (Text Encoding Initiative, P5, 2008) focuses mainly on promulgating the skill of encoding by actualizing chosen aspects of the underlying TEI document datamodel, rather than the knowledge of how to engineer a document-situated datamodel. Few of the text encoding practitioners are taught data modeling or software design, yet their XML encodings must be eventually hosted within some software environment. In some cases the encoded document is completed, and then handed off to a software engineer who independently designs a software environment to manipulate it. This disconnect between humanities scholars and the software environments that house their documents can sometimes result in unappealing and underused systems.