indicates the person, or group of
people, to whom the element content is ascribed.
specifies the earliest possible date for the event in
standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
specifies the latest possible date for the event in
standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
indicates whether or not this element is selected by default when
its parent is selected.
(This element is selected if its parent is selected)
(This element can only be selected explicitly, unless it is the
only one of its kind, in which case it is selected if its parent is selected.)
identifies one or more declarable elements within the
header, which are understood to apply to the element bearing this
attribute and its content.
specifies a name conventionally used for this level of
subdivision, e.g. act, volume, book,
section, canto, etc.
specifies how the content of the division is organized.
(composite content: i.e. no claim is made about the
sequence in which the immediate contents of this division
are to be processed, or their inter-relationships.)
(uniform content: i.e. the immediate contents of this
element are regarded as forming a logical unit, to be
processed in sequence.)
indicates whether this division is a sample of the
original source and if so, from which part.
(division lacks material present at end in source.)
(division lacks material at start and end.)
(division lacks material at start.)
(position of sampled material within original unknown.)
(division is not a sample.)
specifies whether or not the division is fragmented by
some other structural element, for example a speech which is
divided between two or more verse stanzas.
(the division is incomplete in some respect)
(either the division is complete, or no claim is made as to its completeness.)
(the initial part of an incomplete division)
(a medial part of an incomplete division)
(the final part of an incomplete division)
indicates who is responsible for the interpretation.
indicates what kind of phenomenon is being noted in the passage.
points to instances of the analysis or interpretation represented
by the current element.
signifies the degree of certainty associated with the
intervention or interpretation.
indicates the agency responsible for the
intervention or interpretation, for example an editor or transcriber.
indicates the nature of the evidence supporting the reliability or
accuracy of the intervention or interpretation.
gives a number (or other label) for an element, which is
not necessarily unique within the document.
indicates how the element in question was rendered or
presented in the source text.
names the units used for the measurement.
specifies the applicability of this measurement, where
more than one object is being measured.
indicates the units used for the measurement, usually
using the standard symbol for the desired units.
specifies the number of the specified units that
comprise the measurement
indicates the substance that is being measured
provides a means of locating a full definition for the entity being named
such as a database record key or URI.
characterizes the type of segment.
characterizes the function of the segment.
specifies whether or not the segment is fragmented by some other
structural element, for example a clause which is divided between two
or more sentences.
(the segment is incomplete in some respect)
(either the segment is complete, or no claim is made as to
its completeness)
(the initial part of an incomplete segment)
(a medial part of an incomplete segment)
(the final part of an incomplete segment)
indicates the end of a span initiated by the element
bearing this attribute.
indicates the location within a temporal alignment
at which this element begins.
indicates the location within a temporal alignment at which
this element ends.
indicates the length of this element in time, using either
specific units or the units specified on the associated temporal
alignment.
characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient
classification scheme or typology.
provides a sub-categorization of the element, if needed
(paragraph) marks paragraphs in prose.
The type attribute has been added to distinguish different
types of paragraphs, for example those containing a dharani,
a dedication, etc.
(foreign) identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other
than that of the surrounding text.
(emphasized) marks words or phrases which are stressed or emphasized for
linguistic or rhetorical effect.
(highlighted) marks a word or phrase as graphically distinct from the
surrounding text, for reasons concerning which no claim is
made.
(distinct) identifies any word or phrase which is regarded as linguistically
distinct, for example as archaic, technical, dialectal, non-preferred,
etc., or as forming part of a sublanguage.
specifies the sublanguage or register to which the word or phrase
is being assigned
specifies how the phrase is distinct diachronically
specifies how the phrase is distinct diatopically
specifies how the phrase is distinct diastatically
(quoted speech, thought, or writing) contains material which is
marked as (ostensibly) quoted from elsewhere; in narrative, this element is used to mark direct or
indirect speech; in dictionaries, it ay be used to mark
real or contrived examples of usage; in manuscript descriptions or
other metadata, to mark extracts quoted from the source being documented.
may be used to indicate whether the quoted matter is spoken
or thought, or to characterize it more finely.
may be used to indicate whether the quoted matter is regarded
as direct or indirect speech.
(speech or thought is represented directly.)
(speech or thought is represented indirectly,
e.g. by use of a marked verbal aspect.)
(no claim is made.)
(quotation) contains a phrase or passage attributed by the narrator or
author to some agency external to the text.
A quotation from some other document, together with a
bibliographic reference to its source.
marks words or phrases mentioned, not used.
(so called) contains a word or phrase for which the author or narrator
indicates a disclaiming of responsibility, for example by the use
of scare quotes or italics.
supplies the recommended XML name for an element, class,
attribute, etc. in some language.
(description) contains a brief description of the purpose and application for
an element, attribute, or attribute value.
specifies a component which is considered equivalent to the
parent element, either by co-reference, or by external link.
names the underlying concept of which the parent is a
representation
references the underlying concept of which the parent is a
representation by means of some external identifier
references an external script which contains a method to
transform instances of this element to canonical TEI
MIME type of external filter script
identifies a phrase or word used to provide a gloss or
definition for some other word or phrase.
identifies the associated term element by an
absolute or relative URI reference
identifies the associated term element using a canonical
reference from a scheme defined in a refsDecl element
in the TEI header
contains a single-word, multi-word, or symbolic designation
which is regarded as a technical term.
supplies the sort key for this term in an index.
identifies the associated gloss element by an
absolute or relative URI reference
identifies the associated gloss element using a
canonical reference from a scheme defined in a
refsDecl element in the TEI header
contains text reproduced although apparently incorrect or inaccurate.
(correction) contains the correct form of a passage apparently erroneous in the copy text.
groups a number of alternative encodings for the same point in
a text.
indicates the responsibility
(regularization) contains a reading which has been regularized or normalized
in some sense.
(original form) contains a reading which is marked as following the original,
rather than being normalized or corrected.
(omitted material) indicates a point where material has been omitted in a
transcription, whether for editorial reasons described in the TEI
header, as part of sampling practice, or because the material is
illegible or inaudible.
gives the reason for omission. Sample values include
sampling, illegible, inaudible,
irrelevant, cancelled, cancelled and illegible.
in the case of text omitted from the transcription because of
deliberate deletion by an identifiable hand, signifies the hand which
made the deletion.
In the case of text omitted because of damage, categorizes the cause of the damage, if it can be identified.
indicates approximately how much text has been omitted from the
transcription, in letters, minims, inches, or any appropriate unit,
either because of editorial policy or because a deletion, damage, or
other cause has rendered transcription impossible.
(addition) contains letters, words, or phrases inserted in the text by an
author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
if the the addition is written into the copy text, indicates
where the additional text is written.
signifies the hand of the agent which made the addition.
(deletion) contains a letter, word or passage deleted, marked as deleted,
or otherwise indicated as superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an
author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
classifies the type of deletion using any convenient typology.
may be used to indicate faulty deletions, e.g.
strikeouts which include too much or too little text.
signifies the hand of the agent which made the deletion.
contains a word, phrase, or passage which cannot be transcribed
with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.
indicates why the material is hard to transcribe.
Where the difficulty in transcription arises from action
(partial deletion, etc.) assignable to an identifiable hand, signifies
the hand responsible for the action.
Where the difficulty in transcription arises from
damage, categorizes the cause of the damage, if it can be identified.
(name, proper noun) contains a proper noun or noun phrase.
indicates the type of the object which is being named by the
phrase.
(referencing string) contains a general purpose name or referring string.
indicates more specifically the object referred to by the
referencing string. Values might include person,
place, ship, element etc.
contains a postal or other address, for example of a
publisher, an organization, or an individual.
contains one line of a postal or other address.
(street) a full street address including any name or number identifying a
building as well as the name of the street or route on which it is
located.
(postCode) contains a numerical or alphanumeric code used as part of a
postal address to simplify sorting or delivery of mail.
(postBox) contains a number or other identifier for some postal delivery
point other than a street address.
(number) contains a number, written in any form.
indicates the type of numeric value.
supplies the value of the number in standard form.
contains a word or phrase referring to some quantity of
an object or commodity, usually comprising a number, a unit, and a
commodity name.
specifies the type of measurement in any convenient typology.
contains a date in any format.
indicates the system or calendar to which the date belongs.
gives the value of the date in standard form, i.e. yyyy-mm-dd.
indicates the degree of precision associated with the date.
(date range) contains two dates or another phrase delimiting a time period.
indicates the system or calendar to which the date belongs.
indicates the starting point of the period in standard form.
indicates the ending point of the period in standard form.
indicates the precision to be attached to either or both dates
specified.
(the to date is exact)
(the from date is exact)
(both dates are exact)
(both dates are approximate or unspecified)
contains a phrase defining a time of day in any format.
gives the value of the time in standard form, e.g. as hh:mm.
(time range) contains two times or another phrase indicating a time period.
indicates the starting point of the time period in a standard form, usually hh:mm.
indicates the ending point of the time period in standard form, usually hh:mm.
indicates the precision to be attached to either or both times
specified.
(the to time is exact)
(the from time is exact)
(both times are exact)
(both times are approximate or unspecified)
(abbreviation) contains an abbreviation of any sort.
allows the encoder to classify the abbreviation according to
some convenient typology.
(expansion) contains the expansion of an abbreviation.
defines a pointer to another location.
specifies the destination of the pointer by supplying one or
more URI References
specifies the destination of the pointer by supplying a
canonical reference from a scheme defined in a refsDecl
element in the TEI header
defines a reference to another location, possibly
modified by additional text or comment.
specifies the destination of the reference by supplying one
or more URI References
specifies the destination of the reference by supplying a
canonical reference from a scheme defined in a refsDecl
element in the TEI header
contains any sequence of items organized as a list.
describes the form of the list.
contains one
component of a list.
contains the label associated with an item in a list; in
glossaries, marks the term being defined.
(heading) contains any type of heading, for example the title of a section,
or the heading of a list, glossary, manuscript description, etc.
categorizes the heading in any way meaningful
to the encoder.
(heading for list labels) contains the heading for the label or term column in a
glossary list or similar structured list.
(heading for list items) contains the heading for the item or gloss column in a
glossary list or similar structured list.
contains a note or
annotation.
describes the type of note.
indicates who is responsible for the annotation: author,
editor, translator, etc.
indicates where the note appears in the source text.
indicates whether the copy text shows the exact place of reference
for the note.
(copy text indicates the place of attachment for the note.)
(copy text indicates no place of attachment for the note.)
indicates the point (or points) of attachment for a note, or the beginning of
the span to which the note is attached.
points to the end of the span to which the note is attached, if
the note is not embedded in the text at that point.
(index entry) marks a location to be indexed for whatever purpose.
supplies a name to specify which index (of several) the index entry belongs to.
(automatically generated text division) indicates the location at which a textual division generated
automatically by a text-processing application is to appear.
specifies what type of generated text division (e.g. index,
table of contents, etc.) is to appear.
indicates the location of an inline graphic, illustration, or figure.
The display width of the image
The display height of the image
A scale factor to be applied to the image to make it the desired display size
The target URL
The MIME type
provides encoded binary data representing an inline graphic or other object.
The display width of the object
The display height of the object
A scale factor to be applied to the object to make it the desired display size
The MIME type
The encoding used to encode the binary data. If not
specified, this is assumed to be Base64
marks a boundary point separating any kind of section of a text, as indicated by
changes in a standard reference system, where the section is not
represented by a structural element.
indicates the edition or version to which the milestone applies.
provides a conventional name for the kind of section changing at this milestone.
(page break) marks the boundary between one page of a text and the next
in a standard reference system.
indicates the edition or version in which the page break is located
at this point
(line break) marks the start of a new (typographic) line in some
edition or version of a text.
indicates the edition or version in which the line break is located
at this point
(column break) marks the boundary between one column of a text and the next
in a standard reference system.
indicates the edition or version in which the column break is located
at this point
(bibliographic citation) contains a loosely-structured bibliographic citation of which
the sub-components may or may not be explicitly tagged.
(bibliographic citation) contains a bibliographic citation in which only bibliographic
subelements appear.
indicates the physical form of the object of this bibliographic entry.
indicates the publication status of the object of this bibliographic entry.
indicates the relationship of this bibliographic entry to
that of its parent bibl or biblItem.
(structured bibliographic citation) contains a structured bibliographic citation, in which only
bibliographic subelements appear and in a specified order.
contains a fully-structured bibliographic citation, in which all
components of the TEI file description
are present.
(citation list) contains a list of bibliographic citations of any kind.
(analytic level) contains bibliographic elements describing an item (e.g. an
article or poem) published within a monograph or journal and not as an
independent publication.
(monographic level) contains bibliographic elements describing an item (e.g. a book
or journal) published as an independent item (i.e. as a separate
physical object).
(series information) contains information about the series in which a book or other
bibliographic item has appeared.
in a bibliographic reference, contains the name of the author(s),
personal or corporate,
of a work; the primary statement of responsibility for any
bibliographic item.
(editor) secondary statement of responsibility for a
bibliographic item, for example the name of an individual, institution
or organization, (or of several such) acting as editor, compiler,
translator, etc.
specifies the nature of the intellectual responsibility
(statement of responsibility) supplies a statement of responsibility for someone responsible
for the intellectual content of a text, edition, recording, or
series, where the specialized elements for authors, editors, etc. do
not suffice or do not apply.
contains a phrase describing the nature of a person's
intellectual responsibility.
contains the full title of a work of any kind.
indicates the bibliographic level for a title, that is,
whether it identifies an article, book, journal,
series, or unpublished material.
(analytic title (article, poem, or other item published as
part of a larger item))
(monographic title (book, collection, or other item published
as a distinct item, including single volumes of multi-volume
works))
(journal title)
(series title)
(title of unpublished material (including theses and
dissertations unless published by a commercial press))
classifies the title according to some convenient typology.
in bibliographic references,
contains a description of the meeting or conference from which
the bibliographic item derives.
groups information relating to the publication or distribution
of a bibliographic item.
provides the name of the organization responsible for
the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.
(scope of citation) defines the scope of a bibliographic reference, for example as a
list of pagenumbers, or a named subdivision of a larger work.
identifies the type of information conveyed by the element, e.g.
pages, volume.
contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was
published.
(verse line) contains a single, possibly incomplete, line of verse.
specifies whether or not the line is metrically complete.
(the line is metrically incomplete)
(either the line is complete, or no claim is made as to its
completeness)
(the initial part of an incomplete line)
(a medial part of an incomplete line)
(the final part of an incomplete line)
(line group) contains a group of verse lines functioning as a formal unit,
e.g. a stanza, refrain, verse paragraph, etc.
(speech) The sp element is used here to record utterances in a dialog.
The type attribute is used here to.
A specialized form of heading or label, giving the name of
one or more speakers in a dramatic text or fragment.
(stage direction) contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or
fragment.
indicates the kind of stage direction.
(TEI corpus) contains the whole of a TEI encoded corpus, comprising a
single corpus header and one or more TEI elements, each containing
a single text header and a text.
The version of the TEI scheme
(TEI Header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making
up an electronic title page prefixed to every TEI-conformant
text.
specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached.
(File Description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic
file.
(title statement) groups information about the title of a work and those
responsible for its intellectual content.
specifies the name of a sponsoring organization or
institution.
(Funding body) specifies the name of an individual, institution, or organization
responsible for the funding of a project or text.
(principal researcher) supplies the name of the principal researcher responsible for the
creation of an electronic text.
(edition statement) groups information relating to one edition of a text.
(Edition) describes the particularities of one edition of a text.
describes the approximate size of the electronic text as stored on
some carrier medium, specified in any convenient units.
(publication statement) groups information concerning the publication or distribution
of an electronic or other text.
supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for the
distribution of a text.
(release authority) supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for
making an electronic file available, other than a publisher or
distributor.
(identifying number) supplies any standard or non-standard number used to identify a
bibliographic item.
categorizes the number, for example as an ISBN or other
standard series.
supplies information about the availability of a text, for
example any restrictions on its use or distribution, its copyright
status, etc.
supplies a code identifying the current availability of the
text.
(the text is freely available.)
(the status of the text is unknown.)
(the text is not freely available.)
(series statement) groups information about the series, if any, to which
a publication belongs.
(Notes statement) collects together any notes providing information about a text
additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic
description.
supplies a description of the source text(s) from
which an electronic text was derived or generated.
(script statement) contains a citation giving details of the script used for
a spoken text.
(recording statement) describes a set of recordings used in transcription of a
spoken text.
(recording event) details of an audio or video recording event
used as the source of a spoken text, either directly or from
a public broadcast.
the kind of recording.
(audio recording)
(audio and video recording)
the original duration of the recording.
(equipment) provides technical details of the equipment and media used for
an audio or video recording used as the source for a spoken text.
(broadcast) describes a broadcast used as the source of a spoken text.
(Encoding description) documents the relationship between an electronic text and the
source or sources from which it was derived.
(project description) describes in detail the aim or purpose for which an electronic
file was encoded, together with any other relevant information
concerning the process by which it was assembled or collected.
(sampling declaration) contains a prose description of the rationale and methods used
in sampling texts in the creation of a corpus or collection.
(editorial practice declaration) provides details of editorial principles and practices applied
during the encoding of a text.
(correction principles) states how and under what circumstances corrections have been
made in the text.
indicates the degree of correction applied to the text.
(the text has been thoroughly checked and
proofread.)
(the text has been checked at least once.)
(the text has not been checked.)
(the correction status of the text is unknown.)
indicates the method adopted to indicate corrections within the
text.
(corrections have been made silently)
(corrections have been represented using editorial tags)
indicates the extent of normalization or regularization of the
original source carried out in converting it to electronic form.
indicates the authority for any normalization carried out.
indicates the method adopted to indicate normalizations within
the text.
(normalization made silently)
(normalization represented using editorial tags)
specifies editorial practice adopted with respect to quotation
marks in the original.
indicates whether or not quotation marks have been retained as
content within the text.
(no quotation marks have been retained)
(some quotation marks have been retained)
(all quotation marks have been retained)
specifies how quotation marks are indicated within the
text.
(quotation marks are retained as data.)
(the rendition attribute is consistently used to
indicate the form of quotation marks.)
(use of quotation marks has been standardized.)
(quotation marks are represented inconsistently.)
(use of quotation marks is unknown.)
(Hyphenation) summarizes the way in which hyphenation in a source text has been
treated in an encoded version of it.
indicates whether or not end-of-line hyphenation has been
retained in a text.
(all end-of-line hyphenation has been retained,
even though the lineation of the original
may not have been.)
(end-of-line hyphenation has been retained in some
cases.)
(all soft end-of-line hyphenation has been removed:
any remaining end-od-line hyphenation should be retained.)
(all end-of-line hyphenation has been removed:
any remaining hyphenation occurred within the line.)
describes the principles according to which the text has been
segmented, for example into sentences, tone-units, graphemic strata,
etc.
(Standard values) specifies the format used when standardized date or number
values are supplied.
describes the scope of any analytic or interpretive information
added to the text in addition to the transcription.
(tagging declaration) provides detailed information about the tagging applied to an SGML or XML document.
(tagUsage) supplies information about the usage of a specific element
within a text.
the name (generic identifier)
of the element indicated by the tag.
specifies the number of occurrences of this element within the text.
specifies the number of occurrences of this element within the text
which bear a distinct value for the global xml:id attribute.
specifies the identifier of a rendition element which
defines how this element is to be rendered.
(rendition) supplies information about the intended rendition of one or more
elements.
(references declaration) specifies how canonical references are constructed for this
text.
identifies the document type within which
this reference declaration is used.
(defines how to convert a canonical reference into a URI) specifies an expression and replacement pattern for
tranforming a canonical reference into a URI
specifies a regular expression against which the values of
cRef attributes can be matched.
specifies a replacement pattern
which, once subpattern substitution has been performed, provides
a URI.
specifies one component of a canonical reference defined by
the milestone method.
indicates which edition or version the milestone applies to.
indicates what kind of state is changing at this milestone.
specifies the fixed length of the reference component.
supplies a delimiting string following the reference
component.
(classification declarations) contains one or more taxonomies defining any classificatory
codes used elsewhere in the text.
(taxonomy) defines a typology used to classify texts either implicitly, by
means of a bibliographic citation, or explicitly by a structured
taxonomy.
(category) contains an individual descriptive category, possibly nested
within a superordinate category, within a user-defined taxonomy.
(category description) describes some category within a taxonomy
or text typology, either in the form of a brief prose description
or in terms of the situational parameters used by the TEI
formal textDesc.
(FSD (feature-system declaration) declaration) identifies the feature system declaration which contains
definitions for a particular type of feature structure.
identifies the type of feature structure documented by the FSD;
this will be the value of the type attribute on at least one
feature structure.
supplies a link to the entity containing the feature system
declaration.
documents the notation employed to represent a metrical
pattern when this is specified as the value of a met,
real, or rhyme attribute on any structural
element of a metrical text (e.g. lg, l, or
seg).
indicates whether the notation conveys the abstract
metrical form, its actual prosodic realization, or the rhyme
scheme, or some combination thereof.
specifies a regular expression defining any value that
is legal for this notation.
documents the intended significance of a particular character or
character sequence within a metrical notation, either explicitly or in
terms of other symbol elements in the same metDecl.
specifies the character or character sequence being documented.
specifies whether the symbol is defined in terms of other
symbols (terminal is set to false) or in prose
(terminal is set to true).
(the element contains a prose definition of its meaning.)
(the element contains a definition of its meaning given using
symbols defined elsewhere in the same metDecl element.)
declares the method used to encode text-critical variants.
indicates which method is used to encode the apparatus of
variants.
(apparatus uses line numbers or other canonical reference scheme
referenced in a base text.)
(apparatus indicates the precise locations of the beginning and
ending of each lemma relative to a base text.)
(alternate readings of a passage are given in parallel in the
text; no notion of a base text is necessary.)
indicates whether the apparatus appears within the running text
or external to it.
(apparatus appears within the running text.)
(apparatus appears outside the base text.)
(text-profile description) provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects of a
text, specifically the languages and sublanguages used, the situation in
which it was produced, the participants and their setting.
contains information about the creation of a text.
(language usage) describes the languages, sublanguages, registers, dialects etc.
represented within a text.
characterizes a single language or sublanguage used within a
text.
Supplies a language code constructed as defined in RFC 3066 (or
its successor) which is used to identify the language documented
by this element, and which is referenced by the global xml:lang attribute.
specifies the approximate percentage (by volume) of the
text which uses this language.
(text classification) groups information which describes the nature or topic of a text
in terms of a standard classification scheme, thesaurus, etc.
(Keywords) contains a list of keywords or phrases identifying the topic or
nature of a text.
identifies the controlled vocabulary within which the set of
keywords concerned is defined.
(classCode) contains the classification code used for this text in some
standard classification system.
identifies the classification system or taxonomy in use.
(category reference) specifies one or more defined categories
within some taxonomy or text typology.
identifies the categories concerned
identifies the classification scheme within which the set of
categories concerned is defined
(revision description) summarizes the revision history for a file.
summarizes a particular change or correction made
to a particular version of an electronic text which is
shared between several researchers.
supplies the date of the change in standard form, i.e. yyyy-mm-dd.
(TEI document) contains a single TEI-conformant document,
comprising a TEI header and a text, either in isolation or as part of a
teiCorpus element.
The version of the TEI scheme
contains a single text of any kind, whether unitary or
composite, for example a poem or drama, a collection of essays, a novel,
a dictionary, or a corpus sample.
(text body) contains the whole body of a single unitary text, excluding any front or back matter.
contains the body of a composite text, grouping together a
sequence of distinct texts (or groups of such texts) which are regarded
as a unit for some purpose, for example the collected works of an
author, a sequence of prose essays, etc.
(text division) contains a subdivision of the front, body, or back of a
text.
(level-0 text division) contains the largest possible subdivision of the body
of a text.
(level-1 text division) contains a first-level subdivision of the front, body, or back
of a text (the largest, if
div0 is not used, the second largest if it is).
(level-2 text division) contains a second-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a
text.
(level-3 text division) contains a third-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a
text.
(level-4 text division) contains a fourth-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a
text.
(level-5 text division) contains a fifth-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a
text.
(level-6 text division) contains a sixth-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a
text.
(level-7 text division) contains the smallest possible subdivision of the front, body or
back of a text, larger than a paragraph.
(trailer) contains a closing title or footer appearing at the end of
a division of a text.
contains the primary statement of responsibility given for a work
on its title page or at the head or end of the work.
contains a brief description of the place, date, time, etc. of
production of a letter, newspaper story, or other work, prefixed or
suffixed to it as a kind of heading or trailer.
A formal list or prose description of the topics addressed by
a subdivision of a text.
(epigraph) contains a quotation, anonymous or attributed, appearing at
the start of a section or chapter, or on a title page.
groups together dateline, byline, salutation, and similar
phrases appearing as a preliminary group at the start of a
division, especially of a letter.
groups together dateline, byline, salutation, and similar
phrases appearing as a final group at the end of a
division, especially of a letter.
(salutation) contains a salutation or greeting prefixed to a foreword,
dedicatory epistle, or other division of a text, or the
salutation in the closing of a letter, preface, etc.
(signature) contains the closing salutation, etc., appended to a foreword,
dedicatory epistle, or other division of a text.
(title page) contains the title page of a text, appearing within the front
or back matter.
classifies the title page according to any convenient typology.
(document title) contains the title of a document, including all its
constituents, as given on a title page.
(title part) contains a subsection or division of the title of a work, as
indicated on a title page.
specifies the role of this subdivision of the title.
(document author) contains the name of the author of the document, as given on the
title page (often but not always contained in a byline).
contains a formal statement authorizing the publication of
a work, sometimes required to appear on a title page or its verso.
(document edition) contains an edition statement as presented on a title page of a
document.
(document imprint) contains the imprint statement (place and date of publication,
publisher name), as given
(usually) at the foot of a title page.
(document date) contains the date of a document, as given
(usually) on a title page.
gives the value of the date in a standard form.
(front matter) contains any prefatory matter (headers,
title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.)
found at the start of a document, before the main body.
(back matter) contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a
text.
defines an association or hypertextual link
among elements or passages, of some type
not more precisely specifiable by other elements.
specifies the identifiers of the elements or passages
to be linked or associated.
defines a collection of associations or hypertextual links.
(anonymous block) contains any arbitrary component-level unit of text, acting as
an anonymous container for phrase or inter level elements analogous to, but
without the semantic baggage of, a paragraph.
specifies whether or not the block is complete.
(the block is incomplete)
(either the block is complete, or no claim is made as to its
completeness)
(the initial part of an incomplete block)
(a medial part of an incomplete block)
(the final part of an incomplete block)
(anchor point) attaches an identifier to a
point within a text, whether or not it corresponds with a textual
element.
(arbitrary segment) contains any arbitrary phrase-level unit of text (including
other seg elements).
provides a sub-categorization of the segment marked.
(when) indicates a point in time either relative to other elements in the
same timeline tag, or absolutely.
supplies an absolute value for the time.
specifies the unit of time in which the interval
value is expressed, if this is not inherited from the parent timeLine.
specifies the numeric portion of a time interval
identifies the reference point for determining the time of the
current when element, which is obtained by adding the interval to the
time of the reference point.
(timeline) provides a set of ordered points in time which can be linked to
elements of a spoken text to create a temporal alignment of that text.
designates the origin of the timeline, i.e. the time at which it
begins.
specifies the unit of time corresponding to the
interval value of the timeline or of its
constituent points in time.
specifies the numeric portion of a time interval
identifies a possibly fragmented segment of text, by pointing
at the possibly discontiguous elements which compose it.
specifies the identifiers of the elements or passages
to be joined into a virtual
element.
specifies the name of an element
which this aggregation
may be understood to represent.
indicates whether the targets to be joined include the
entire element indicated (the entire subtree including its root),
or just the children of the target (the branches of the subtree).
(the rooted subtrees indicated by the targets
attribute are joined, each subtree become a child of the virtual
element created by the join)
(the children of the subtrees indicated by the
targets attribute become the children of the virtual element
(i.e. the roots of the subtrees are discarded))
(join group) groups a collection of join elements and possibly
pointers.
describes the result of the joins gathered in this collection.
(alternation) identifies an alternation or a set of choices among elements or passages.
specifies the identifiers of the alternative elements or passages.
states whether the alternations gathered in this collection are exclusive or inclusive.
(indicates that the alternation is exclusive, i.e. that
at most one of the alternatives occurs.)
(indicates that the alternation is not exclusive, i.e. that
one or more of the alternatives occur.)
If mode is excl, each weight states the
probability that the corresponding alternative occurs. If
modeincl each weight states the probability that
the corresponding alternative occurs given that at least one
of the other alternatives occurs.
(alternation group) groups a collection of alt elements and possibly
pointers.
states whether the alternations gathered in this collection are
exclusive or inclusive.
(indicates that the alternation is exclusive, i.e. that at
most one of the alternatives occurs.)
(indicates that the alternation is not exclusive, i.e. that
one or more of the alternatives occur.)
points to elements that correspond to the current
element in some way.
points to elements that are synchronous with the current
element.
points to an element that is the same as the current
element.
points to an element of which the current element is a
copy.
points to the next element of a virtual aggregate of which
the current element is part.
points to the previous element of a virtual aggregate of
which the current element is part.
points to elements that are in exclusive alternation
with the current element.
selects one or more alternants; if one alternant is
selected, the ambiguity or uncertainty is marked as resolved. If
more than one alternant is selected, the degree of ambiguity or
uncertainty is marked as reduced by the number of alternants not
selected.
categorizes the pointer in some respect, using any
convenient set of categories.
specifies the intended meaning when the target of a
pointer is itself a pointer.
(if the element pointed to is itself a pointer, then
the target of that pointer will be taken, and so on, until
an element is found which is not a pointer.)
(if the element pointed to is itself a pointer, then
its target (whether a pointer or not) is taken as the target
of this pointer.)
(no further evaluation of targets is carried out
beyond that needed to find the element specified in the
pointer's target.)
optionally specifies the identifiers of the elements
within which all elements indicated by the contents of this
element lie.
describes the function of each of the values of the
targets attribute of the enclosed link,
join or alt tags.
contains a list of one or more sigla indicating the witnesses
which begin or end at this point.
contains a list of one or more pointers indicating the witnesses
which attest to a given reading.
classifies the reading according to some useful typology.
classifies the cause for the variant reading, according to
any appropriate typology of possible origins.
provides a number indicating the position of this reading in a
sequence, when there is reason to presume a sequence to the variants
on any one lemma.
identifies the editor responsible for asserting a
particular reading in the witness.
signifies the hand responsible for a particular reading in the
witness.
(apparatus entry) contains one entry in a critical apparatus, with an optional
lemma and at least one reading.
classifies the variation contained in this element according to
some convenient typology.
identifies the beginning of the lemma in the base text, if
necessary.
identifies the endpoint of the lemma in the base text, if
necessary.
indicates the location of the variation, when the
location-referenced method of apparatus markup is used.
(lemma) contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.
cf1 provides reference to a witness in another canonical
collection
cf2 provides reference to a witness in another canonical
collection
(reading) contains a single reading within a textual variation.
cf1 provides reference to a witness in another canonical
collection
cf2 provides reference to a witness in another canonical
collection
(reading group) within a textual variation,
groups two or more readings perceived to have a genetic
relationship or other affinity.
gives further information about a particular witness, or
witnesses, to a particular reading.
indicates the identifier for the reading, or readings, to which
the witness detail refers.
identifies the individual responsible for identifying the
witness
indicates the sigil or sigla for the witnesses to which the
detail refers.
describes the type of information given about the witness.
indicates where the note appears in the source text.
contains a list of one or more sigla of witnesses attesting a
given reading, in a textual variation.
(witness list) contains a list of all the witnesses referred to in
wit elements or wit attributes
within the critical apparatus.
contains either a description of a single witness referred to
within the critical apparatus, or a list of witnesses which is to be
referred to by a single sigil.
indicates which other witnesses are included in a witness group.
indicates the beginning, or resumption, of the text of a
fragmentary witness.
indicates the end, or suspension, of the text of a fragmentary
witness.
indicates the beginning of a lacuna in the text of a mostly
complete textual witness.
indicates the end of a lacuna in a mostly complete textual
witness.
contains text displayed in tabular form, in
rows and columns.
indicates the number of rows in the table.
indicates the number of columns in each row of the table.
contains one row of a table.
indicates the kind of information held in the cells of this row.
contains one cell of a table.
indicates the kind of information held in the cell.
indicates the number of rows occupied by this cell.
indicates the number of columns occupied by this cell.
contains a mathematical or other formula.
supplies the name of a previously defined notation used for the
content of the
element.
contains a block containing graphics, illustrations, or figures.
(Description of Figure) contains a brief prose description of the appearance or content
of a graphic figure, for use when documenting an image without
displaying it.
(character or glyph) represents a non-standard character or glyph.
points to a description of the character or glyph intended.
(character) provides descriptive information about a character.
(character name) contains the name of a character, expressed following Unicode conventions.
(character property) provides a name and value for some property of the parent
character or glyph.
(character description) provides descriptive information about characters or
glyphs.
(character glyph) provides descriptive information about a character glyph.
(character glyph name) contains the name of a glyph, expressed following Unicode
conventions for character names.
(Locally-defined Property Name) contains a locally defined name for some property.
(character mapping) contains one or more
characters which are related to the parent character or glyph
in some respect, as specified by the type
attribute.
(Unicode Property Name) contains the name of a registered Unicode normative or
informative property.
specifies the version number of the Unicode Standard in
which this property name is defined.
(value) contains a single value for some property, attribute, or other
analysis.
indicates type of entry, in dictionaries with multiple types.
contains a (sortable) character sequence reflecting the entry's alphabetical
position in the printed dictionary.
groups successive entries for a set of homographs.
contains a reasonably well-structured dictionary entry.
contains a dictionary entry which does not necessarily conform to the constraints imposed
by the entry element.
(homograph) groups information relating to one homograph within an entry.
(sense information group) groups together all information relating to one word sense in a dictionary entry
(definitions, examples, translation equivalents, etc.)
gives the nesting depth of this sense.
encloses a part of a dictionary entry in which other phrase-level dictionary elements are
freely combined.
(form information group) groups all the information on the written and spoken forms of one headword.
classifies form as simple, compound, etc.
(orthographic form) gives the orthographic form of a dictionary headword.
gives the type of spelling.
gives the extent of the orthographic information provided.
(pronunciation) contains the pronunciation(s) of the word.
indicates whether the pronunciation is for whole word or part.
indicates what notation is used for the pronunciation, if more than one occurs in
the machine-readable dictionary.
(hyphenation) contains a hyphenated form of a dictionary headword, or hyphenation information in some
other form.
(syllabification) contains the syllabification of the headword.
contains the stress pattern for a dictionary headword, if given separately.
(grammatical information) within an entry in a dictionary or a terminological data file, contains grammatical
information relating to a term, word, or form.
classifies the grammatical information given according to some convenient typology
— in the case of terminological information, preferably the dictionary of
data element types specified in ISO WD 12 620.
(gender) identifies the morphological gender of a lexical item, as given in the dictionary.
indicates grammatical number associated with a form, as given in a dictionary.
contains grammatical case information given by a dictionary for a given form.
(person) contains an indication of the grammatical person (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) associated with a
given inflected form in a dictionary.
(tense) indicates the grammatical tense associated with a given inflected form in a dictionary.
contains information about the grammatical mood of verbs (e.g. indicative, subjunctive, imperative)
(inflectional class) indicates the inflectional class associated with a lexical item.
indicates the type of indicator used to specify the inflection class, when it is
necessary to distinguish between the usual abbreviated indications (e.g.
inv) and other kinds of indicators, such as special codes
referring to conjugation patterns, etc.
(grammatical information group) groups morpho-syntactic information about a lexical item, e.g. pos, gen, number, case, or
iType (inflectional class).
(part of speech) indicates the part of speech assigned to a dictionary headword (noun, verb, adjective, etc.)
(subcategorization) contains subcategorization information (transitive/intransitive, countable/non-countable, etc.)
(collocate) contains a collocate of the headword.
classifies the collocation, using any convenient typology.
(definition) contains definition text in a dictionary entry.
(translation equivalent) contains a translation of the headword or an example.
(translation information) contains translation text and related information (within an entry in a multilingual dictionary).
(etymology) encloses the etymological information in a dictionary entry.
(language name) name of a language mentioned in etymological or other linguistic discussion.
(example (exempli gratia)) (in a dictionary) contains an example text containing at least one occurrence of the word
form, used in the sense being described; examples may be quoted from (named) authors or contrived.
(usage) contains usage information in a dictionary entry.
classifies the usage information using any convenient typology.
(label) in dictionaries, contains a label for a form, example, translation, or other piece of
information, e.g. abbreviation for, contraction of, literally, approximately, synonyms:, etc.
classifies the label using any convenient typology.
(cross-reference phrase) contains a phrase, sentence, or icon referring the reader to
some other location in this or another text.
indicates the type of cross reference, using any convenient
typology.
(related entry) contains a dictionary entry for a lexical item related to the headword, such as a compound
phrase or derived form, embedded inside a larger entry.
classifies the related entry according to any convenient typology.
identifies the orthographic form or pronunciation referred to.
(orthographic-form reference) in a dictionary example, indicates a reference to the orthographic form(s) of the headword.
indicates the kind of typographic modification made to the headword in the reference.
(orthographic-variant reference) in a dictionary example, indicates a reference to variant orthographic form(s) of the headword.
indicates the kind of variant involved.
(pronunciation reference) in a dictionary example, indicates a reference to the pronunciation(s) of the headword.
(pronunciation-variant reference) in a dictionary example, indicates a reference to variant pronunciation(s) of the headword.
gives an expanded form of information presented more concisely in the dictionary
gives a normalized form of information given by the source text in a
non-normalized form
gives the list of split values for a merged form
gives a value which lacks any realization in the printed source text.
gives the original string or is the empty string when the element does not appear
in the source text.
provides a reference to an anchor element elsewhere in the document
indicating the original location of this component.
gives a reference to another element, where the original appears as a merged form.
indicates whether the element is optional or not
A specialization of the docTitle element. This should be used only once per document, usually as direct child of the body element
(opener)
(closer)
Specialized head element used at the start of a scroll.
Container element for parallel t elements
Element for parallel t elements (used to mark parallel Chinese and
Sanskrit passages)
describes the certainty of the assignment
A container element for a sound gloss in fanqie notation. The
character to be annotated is zi, the soundgloss is
yin. The determinant is
Content of a soundgloss, either of the fanqie type, or a
description, how a Sanskrit transkription is supposed to be
rendered.
Describes how the sound is modified on the preceding zi
element.