new_contents: """Work with TEI XML files."""
  
  import glob
  import os
  
  
  bs4_installed = True
  try:
      from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
  except ImportError:
      bs4_installed = False
  
  from cltk.utils.cltk_logger import logger
  
  
  def onekgreek_tei_xml_to_text():
      """Find TEI XML dir of TEI XML for the First 1k Years of Greek corpus."""
      if not bs4_installed:
          logger.error('Install `bs4` and `lxml` to parse these TEI files.')
          raise ImportError
      xml_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/cltk_data/greek/text/greek_text_first1kgreek/data/*/*/*.xml')
      xml_paths = glob.glob(xml_dir)
      if not len(xml_paths):
          logger.error('1K Greek corpus not installed. Use CorpusInstaller to get `First1KGreek`.')
          raise FileNotFoundError
      xml_paths = [path for path in xml_paths if '__cts__' not in path]
  
      # new dir
      new_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/cltk_data/greek/text/greek_text_first1kgreek_plaintext/')
      if not os.path.isdir(new_dir):
          os.makedirs(new_dir)
  
      for xml_path in xml_paths:
          _, xml_name = os.path.split(xml_path)
          xml_name = xml_name.rstrip('.xml')
          xml_name += '.txt'
          with open(xml_path) as file_open:
              soup = BeautifulSoup(file_open, 'lxml')
          body = soup.body
          text = body.get_text()
          new_plaintext_path = os.path.join(new_dir, xml_name)
          with open(new_plaintext_path, 'w') as file_open:
              file_open.write(text)
  
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      text = onekgreek_tei_xml_to_text()
      print(text)
  
subject: add crude tei parser