EVT is a light-weight, open source tool specifically designed to create digital editions from TEI XML-encoded texts, freeing the scholar from the burden of web programming and enabling the final user to browse, explore and study digital editions by means of a user-friendly interface. EVT 1 is suitable for diplomatic editions, EVT 2 supports critical editions and will be further developed to include all features available in the previous version. Since it is distributed as open source software, EVT can be used at no cost and adapted to project-specific goals.