(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
supplies the value of the date or time in a standard form,
e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
indicates the starting point of the period in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
indicates the ending point of the period in standard
form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
indicates the system or calendar to which the date represented by the content of this
element belongs.
supplies a pointer to some location defining a named
period of time within which the datable item is understood to
have occurred.
indicates whether or not this element is selected by default when
its parent is selected.
true
This element is selected if its parent is selected
false
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.
(identifier) provides a unique identifier for the element bearing the attribute.
(number) gives a number (or other label) for an element, which is not necessarily unique within
the document.
(language) indicates the language of the element content using a tag generated
according to BCP 47
(rendition) indicates how the element in question was rendered or presented in the source text.
characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient
classification scheme or typology.
specifies the destination of the reference by supplying one or more URI References
supplies the sort key for this element in an index, list or group which contains it.
indicates the kind of information held in this cell or
in each cell of this row.
Suggested values include: 1] label; 2] data
label
labelling or descriptive information only.
data
data values.
indicates the number of rows occupied by this cell or row.
(columns) indicates the number of columns occupied by this cell or
row.
signifies the hand of the agent which made the intervention.
indicates the effect of the intervention, for example in
the case of a deletion, strikeouts
which include too much or too little text, or in the case of an
addition, an insertion which duplicates some of the text
already present.
Sample values include: 1] duplicate; 2] duplicate-partial; 3] excessStart; 4] excessEnd; 5] shortStart; 6] shortEnd; 7] partial; 8] unremarkable
documents the presumed cause for the intervention.
fix
repeated for the purpose of fixation
unclear
repeated to clarify a previously illegible or badly written text
or mark
(sequence) assigns a sequence number related to the order in which
the encoded features carrying this attribute are believed to have occurred.
(paragraph) marks paragraphs in prose. [3.1. 7.2.5. ]
(foreign) identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other than that of the
surrounding text. [3.3.2.1. ]
(highlighted) marks a word or phrase as graphically distinct from the
surrounding text, for reasons concerning which no claim is
made. [3.3.2.2. 3.3.2. ]
(separated from the surrounding text with quotation marks) contains material which is marked as (ostensibly) being somehow different than the
surrounding text, for any one of a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: direct
speech or thought, technical terms or jargon, authorial distance, quotations from elsewhere, and
passages that are mentioned but not used. [3.3.3. ]
may be used to indicate whether the offset passage is spoken or thought, or to
characterize it more finely.
Suggested values include: 1] spoken; 2] thought; 3] written; 4] soCalled; 5] foreign(foreign words) ; 6] distinct(linguistically distinct) ; 7] term(technical term) ; 8] emph(rhetorically emphasized) ; 9] mentioned
spoken
representation of speech
thought
representation of thought, e.g. internal monologue
written
quotation from a written source
soCalled
authorial distance
foreign
(foreign words)
distinct
(linguistically distinct)
term
(technical term)
emph
(rhetorically emphasized)
mentioned
refering to itself, not its normal referant
(cited quotation) contains a quotation from some other document, together with a bibliographic reference to
its source. In a dictionary it may contain an example text with at least one occurrence of the
word form, used in the sense being described, or a translation of the headword, or an example. [3.3.3. 4.3.1. 9.3.5.1. ]
(description) contains a brief description of the object documented by its parent element, including its
intended usage, purpose, or application where this is appropriate. [22.4.4. 22.4.5. 22.4.6. 22.4.7. ]
(gap) 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, invisible, or inaudible. [3.4.3. ]
gives the reason for omission. Sample values include sampling,
inaudible, irrelevant, cancelled.
(addition) contains letters, words, or phrases inserted in the text by an
author, scribe, annotator, or corrector. [3.4.3. ]
(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. [3.4.3. ]
contains a word, phrase, or passage which cannot be transcribed with certainty because it
is illegible or inaudible in the source. [11.3.3.1. 3.4.3. ]
indicates why the material is hard to transcribe.
(name, proper noun) contains a proper noun or noun phrase. [3.5.1. ]
(electronic mail address) contains an e-mail address identifying a location to which
e-mail messages can be delivered.
[3.5.2. ]
contains a postal address, for example of a
publisher, an organization, or an individual. [3.5.2. 2.2.4. 3.11.2.3. ]
(address line) contains one line of a postal address. [3.5.2. 2.2.4. 3.11.2.3. ]
(number) contains a number, written in any form. [3.5.3. ]
indicates the type of numeric value.
Suggested values include: 1] cardinal; 2] ordinal; 3] fraction; 4] percentage
cardinal
absolute number, e.g. 21, 21.5
ordinal
ordinal number, e.g. 21st
fraction
fraction, e.g. one half or three-quarters
percentage
a percentage
contains a date in any format. [3.5.4. 2.2.4. 2.5. 3.11.2.3. 15.2.3. 13.3.6. ]
contains a phrase defining a time of day in any format. [3.5.4. ]
(abbreviation) contains an abbreviation of any sort. [3.5.5. ]
(pointer) defines a pointer to another location. [3.6. 16.1. ]
Only one of the
attributes 'target' and 'cRef' may be supplied.
(reference) defines a reference to another location, possibly modified by additional text or comment. [3.6. 16.1. ]
Only one of the
attributes 'target' and 'cRef' may be supplied.
(list) contains any sequence of items organized as a list. [3.7. ]
describes the form of the list.
Suggested values include: 1] ordered; 2] bulleted; 3] simple; 4] gloss
ordered
list items are numbered or lettered.
bulleted
list items are marked with a bullet or other typographic device.
simple
list items are not numbered or bulleted.
gloss
each list item glosses some term or concept, which is given by a label element
preceding the list item.
contains one component of a list. [3.7. 2.5. ]
contains any label or heading used to identify part of a text,
typically but not exclusively in a list or glossary. [3.7. ]
(heading) contains any type of heading, for example the title of a section, or the heading of a list,
glossary, manuscript description, etc. [4.2.1. ]
contains a note or annotation. [3.8.1. 2.2.6. 3.11.2.6. 9.3.5.4. ]
indicates the location of an inline graphic, illustration, or figure. [3.9. ]
(uniform resource locator) A URL which refers to the image itself.
marks a boundary point separating any kind of section of a text, typically but not
necessarily indicating a point at which some part of a standard reference system changes, where
the change is not represented by a structural element. [3.10.3. ]
provides a conventional name for the kind of section changing at this milestone.
Suggested values include: 1] page; 2] column; 3] line; 4] book; 5] poem; 6] canto; 7] speaker; 8] stanza; 9] act; 10] scene; 11] section; 12] absent; 13] unnumbered
page
physical page breaks (synonymous with the pb element).
column
column breaks.
line
line breaks (synonymous with the lb element).
book
any units termed book, liber, etc.
poem
individual poems in a collection.
canto
cantos or other major sections of a poem.
speaker
changes of speaker or narrator.
stanza
stanzas within a poem, book, or canto.
act
acts within a play.
scene
scenes within a play or act.
section
sections of any kind.
absent
passages not present in the reference edition.
unnumbered
passages present in the text, but not to be included as part of the reference.
(page break) marks the boundary between one page of a text and the next in a standard reference system. [3.10.3. ]
(line break) marks the start of a new (typographic) line in some edition or version of a text. [3.10.3. 7.2.5. ]
(column break) marks the boundary between one column of a text and the next
in a standard reference system. [3.10.3. ]
in a bibliographic reference, contains the name(s) of an
author, personal or corporate, of a work; for example in the same
form as that provided by a recognized bibliographic name authority. [3.11.2.2. 2.2.1. ]
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. [3.11.2.2. ]
(statement of responsibility) supplies a statement of responsibility 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. May also be used to encode information about individuals or organizations
which have played a role in the production or distribution of a bibliographic work. [3.11.2.2. 2.2.1. 2.2.2. 2.2.5. ]
(responsibility) contains a phrase describing the nature of a person's intellectual responsibility, or an organization's role
in the production or distribution of a work. [3.11.2.2. 2.2.1. 2.2.2. 2.2.5. ]
contains a title for any kind of work. [3.11.2.2. 2.2.1. 2.2.5. ]
indicates the bibliographic level for a title, that is, whether
it identifies an article, book, journal, series, or
unpublished material.
a
(analytic) analytic title (article, poem, or other item
published as part of a larger item)
m
(monographic) monographic title (book, collection, or
other item published as a distinct item,
including single volumes of multi-volume
works)
j
(journal) journal title
s
(series) series title
u
(unpublished) title of unpublished material (including
theses and dissertations unless
published by a commercial press)
classifies the title according to some convenient typology.
Sample values include: 1] main; 2] sub(subordinate) ; 3] alt(alternate) ; 4] short; 5] desc(descriptive)
provides the name of the organization responsible for the publication or distribution of a
bibliographic item. [3.11.2.3. 2.2.4. ]
(publication place) contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was published. [3.11.2.3. ]
(bibliographic citation) contains a loosely-structured bibliographic citation of which the sub-components may or may
not be explicitly tagged. [3.11.1. 2.2.7. 15.3.2. ]
(citation list) contains a list of bibliographic citations of any kind. [3.11.1. 2.2.7. 15.3.2. ]
(verse line) contains a single, possibly incomplete, line of verse. [3.12.1. 3.12. 7.2.5. ]
(line group) contains a group of verse lines functioning as a formal unit, e.g. a stanza, refrain,
verse paragraph, etc. [3.12.1. 3.12. 7.2.5. ]
(speech) An individual speech in a performance text, or a passage presented as such in a prose or
verse text. [3.12.2. 3.12. 7.2.2. ]
A specialized form of heading or label, giving the name of one or more speakers in a
dramatic text or fragment. [3.12.2. ]
(stage direction) contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or fragment. [3.12.2. 3.12. 7.2.4. ]
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. [4. 15.1. ]
(text body) contains the whole body of a single unitary text, excluding any front or back matter. [4. ]
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. [4. 4.3.1. 15.1. ]
contains a single text of any kind, whether unitary or composite, which interrupts the text
containing it at any point and after which the surrounding text resumes. [4.3.2. ]
(level-1 text division) contains a first-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text. [4.1.2. ]
(level-2 text division) contains a second-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a
text. [4.1.2. ]
(level-3 text division) contains a third-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text. [4.1.2. ]
(level-4 text division) contains a fourth-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text. [4.1.2. ]
(level-5 text division) contains a fifth-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text. [4.1.2. ]
(level-6 text division) contains a sixth-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text. [4.1.2. ]
(level-7 text division) contains the smallest possible subdivision of the front, body or back of a text, larger than
a paragraph. [4.1.2. ]
contains the primary statement of responsibility given for a work
on its title page or at the head or end of the work. [4.2.2. 4.5. ]
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. [4.2.4. 4.2.2. ]
A formal list or prose description of the topics addressed by
a subdivision of a text. [4.2. 4.6. ]
contains a quotation, anonymous or attributed, appearing at
the start or end of a section or on a title page. [4.2.3. 4.2. 4.6. ]
groups together dateline, byline, salutation, and similar phrases appearing as a preliminary
group at the start of a division, especially of a letter. [4.2.4. 4.2. ]
groups together salutations, datelines, and similar phrases appearing as a final group at
the end of a division, especially of a letter. [4.2.2. 4.2. ]
(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. [4.2.4. 4.2.2. ]
(signature) contains the closing salutation, etc., appended to a foreword,
dedicatory epistle, or other division of a text. [4.2.4. 4.2.2. ]
contains a postscript, e.g. to a letter. [4.2. ]
(title page) contains the title page of a text, appearing within the front or back matter. [4.6. ]
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. [4.6. ]
contains a subsection or division of the title of a work, as
indicated on a title page. [4.6. ]
specifies the role of this subdivision of the title.
Suggested values include: 1] main; 2] sub(subordinate) ; 3] alt(alternate) ; 4] short; 5] desc(descriptive)
main
main title of the work
sub
(subordinate) subtitle of the work
alt
(alternate) alternative title of the work
short
abbreviated form of title
desc
(descriptive) descriptive paraphrase of the work
(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). [4.6. ]
(document edition) contains an edition statement as presented on a title page of a
document. [4.6. ]
(document imprint) contains the imprint statement (place and date of publication,
publisher name), as given
(usually) at the foot of a title page. [4.6. ]
(document date) contains the date of a document, as given
(usually) on a title page. [4.6. ]
gives the value of the date in standard form, i.e. YYYY-MM-DD.
(front matter) contains any prefatory matter (headers,
title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.)
found at the start of a document, before the main body. [4.6. 4. ]
(back matter) contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a text. [4.7. 4. ]
contains text displayed in tabular form, in rows and columns. [14.1.1. ]
indicates the number of rows in the table.
(columns) indicates the number of columns in each row of the table.
contains one row of a table. [14.1.1. ]
contains one cell of a table. [14.1.1. ]
contains a mathematical or other formula. [14.2. ]
groups elements representing or containing graphic information
such as an illustration, formula, or figure. [14.4. ]
(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. [16.3. ]
(arbitrary segment) represents any segmentation of text below the chunk level. [16.3. 6.2. 7.2.5. ]
(character or glyph) represents a non-standard character or glyph.
(facsimile) points to all or part of an image which corresponds with the content of the element.
marks the beginning of a sequence of text written in a new
hand, or the beginning of a scribal stint. [11.3.2.1. ]
identifies the new hand.
(bold) for capturing typographical feature: bold glyphs.
(italics) for capturing typographical feature: italicized glyphs.
(underline) for capturing typographical feature: underlined glyphs.
(subscript) for capturing typographical feature: subscript glyphs.
(superscript) for capturing typographical feature: superscript glyphs.
(smallcaps) for capturing typographical feature: glyphs in small capitals.
(columns) with the n attribute (denoting new number of columns) is used to mark
where a document changes columnar layout.
indicates the edition or version in which the change in columnar layout is located at
this point
for capturing typographical feature: printer's ornament, horizontal line, strings of
asterisks or periods, etc, indicating an informal division that does not call for a new
div element. If a horizontal rule or printer's ornament, use appropriate
rend attribute and leave the element empy; if the ornament can be represented
with characters, include these in the element.