indicates the person, or group of people, to whom the element content is ascribed.
provides an externally-defined means of identifying the entity (or entities) being
named, using a coded value of some kind.
(reference) provides an explicit means of locating a full definition for the entity being named by
means of one or more URIs.
gives a minimum estimated value for the approximate measurement.
(\-?[\d]+/\-?[\d]+)
gives a maximum estimated value for the approximate measurement.
(\-?[\d]+/\-?[\d]+)
where the measurement summarizes more than one observation
or a range, supplies the minimum value
observed.
(\-?[\d]+/\-?[\d]+)
where the measurement summarizes more than one observation
or a range, supplies the maximum value
observed.
(\-?[\d]+/\-?[\d]+)
names the unit used for the measurement
Suggested values include: 1] cm(centimetres) ; 2] mm(millimetres) ; 3] in(inches) ; 4] lines; 5] chars(characters)
cm
(centimetres)
mm
(millimetres)
in
(inches)
lines
lines of text
chars
(characters) characters of text
specifies the length in the units specified
(\-?[\d]+/\-?[\d]+)
indicates the size of the object concerned using a project-specific vocabulary combining
quantity and units in a single string of words.
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
characterizes the precision of the values specified by the other attributes.
high
medium
low
unknown
where the measurement summarizes more than one observation, specifies the applicability
of this measurement.
Sample values include: 1] all; 2] most; 3] range
supplies a pointer to some location defining a named
period of time within which the datable item is understood to
have occurred.
supplies the value of the date or time in a standard form,
e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
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 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.
identifies one or more declarable elements within the
header, which are understood to apply to the element bearing this
attribute and its content.
(certainty) signifies the degree of certainty associated with the intervention or interpretation.
high
medium
low
unknown
(responsible party) indicates the agency responsible for the intervention or interpretation, for example an
editor or transcriber.
contains a list of one or more pointers indicating the sources which support the given
reading.
(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.
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
(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.
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
provides a base URI reference with which applications can resolve relative URI
references into absolute URI references.
(MIME media type) specifies the applicable multimedia internet mail extension (MIME) media type
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
indicates the units used for the measurement, usually
using the standard symbol for the desired units.
Suggested values include: 1] m(metre) ; 2] kg(kilogram) ; 3] s(second) ; 4] Hz(hertz) ; 5] Pa(pascal) ; 6] Ω(ohm) ; 7] L(litre) ; 8] t(tonne) ; 9] ha(hectare) ; 10] Å(ångström) ; 11] mL(millilitre) ; 12] cm(centimetre) ; 13] dB(decibel) ; 14] kbit(kilobit) ; 15] Kibit(kibibit) ; 16] kB(kilobyte) ; 17] KiB(kibibyte) ; 18] MB(megabyte) ; 19] MiB(mebibyte)
m
(metre) SI base unit of length
kg
(kilogram) SI base unit of mass
s
(second) SI base unit of time
Hz
(hertz) SI unit of frequency
Pa
(pascal) SI unit of pressure or stress
Ω
(ohm) SI unit of electric resistance
L
(litre) 1 dm³
t
(tonne) 10³ kg
ha
(hectare) 1 hm²
Å
(ångström) 10⁻¹⁰ m
mL
(millilitre)
cm
(centimetre)
dB
(decibel) see remarks, below
kbit
(kilobit) 10³ or 1000 bits
Kibit
(kibibit) 2¹⁰ or 1024 bits
kB
(kilobyte) 10³ or 1000 bytes
KiB
(kibibyte) 2¹⁰ or 1024 bytes
MB
(megabyte) 10⁶ or 1 000 000 bytes
MiB
(mebibyte) 2²⁰ or 1 048 576 bytes
specifies the number of the specified units that
comprise the measurement
(\-?[\d]+/\-?[\d]+)
indicates the substance that is being measured
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
may be used to specify further information about the entity referenced by
this name, for example the occupation of a person, or the status of a place.
(reference to the canonical name) provides a means of locating the canonical form
(nym) of the names associated with the object
named by
the element bearing it.
Suggested values include: 1] below; 2] bottom; 3] margin; 4] top; 5] opposite; 6] overleaf; 7] above; 8] end; 9] inline; 10] inspace
below
below the line
bottom
at the foot of the page
margin
in the margin (left, right, or both)
top
at the top of the page
opposite
on the opposite, i.e. facing, page
overleaf
on the other side of the leaf
above
above the line
end
at the end of e.g. chapter or volume.
inline
within the body of the text.
inspace
in a predefined space, for example left by an earlier scribe.
(edition) supplies an arbitrary identifier for the source edition in which
the associated feature (for example, a page, column, or line
break) occurs at this point in the text.
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.
specifies the version name or number of the source from
which the translated version was derived
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient
classification scheme or typology.
(paragraph) marks paragraphs in prose.
(foreign) identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other than that of the
surrounding text.
(highlighted) marks a word or phrase as graphically distinct from the
surrounding text, for reasons concerning which no claim is
made.
(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.
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.
(description) contains a brief description of the object documented by its parent element, including its
intended usage, purpose, or application where this is appropriate.
(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.
gives the reason for omission. Sample values include sampling,
inaudible, irrelevant, cancelled.
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
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.
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
(name, proper noun) contains a proper noun or noun phrase.
(electronic mail address) contains an e-mail address identifying a location to which
e-mail messages can be delivered.
contains a postal address, for example of a
publisher, an organization, or an individual.
(address line) contains one line of a postal address.
(number) contains a number, written in any form.
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
supplies the value of the number in standard form.
(\-?[\d]+/\-?[\d]+)
(measure group) contains a group of dimensional specifications which relate to the same object, for example
the height and width of a manuscript page.
contains a date in any format.
indicates the system or calendar to which the date represented by the content of this
element belongs.
Suggested values include: 1] Gregorian; 2] Julian; 3] Islamic; 4] Hebrew; 5] Revolutionary; 6] Iranian; 7] Coptic; 8] Chinese
Gregorian
Gregorian calendar
Julian
Julian calendar
Islamic
Islamic or Muslim (hijri) lunar calendar
Hebrew
Hebrew or Jewish lunisolar calendar
Revolutionary
French Revolutionary calendar
Iranian
Iranian or Persian (Jalaali) solar calendar
Coptic
Coptic or Alexandrian calendar
Chinese
Chinese lunisolar calendar
contains a phrase defining a time of day in any format.
(abbreviation) contains an abbreviation of any sort.
allows the encoder to classify the abbreviation according to some convenient
typology.
Sample values include: 1] suspension; 2] contraction; 3] brevigraph; 4] superscription; 5] acronym; 6] title; 7] organization; 8] geographic
(pointer) defines a pointer to another location.
the target and cRef
attributes are mutually exclusive.
specifies the destination of the pointer by supplying one or more URI References
(canonical reference) specifies the destination of the pointer by supplying a canonical reference from a
scheme defined in a refsDecl element in the TEI header
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
(reference) 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
(canonical reference) specifies the destination of the reference by supplying a canonical reference from a
scheme defined in a refsDecl element in the TEI header
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
(list) contains any sequence of items organized as a list.
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.
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.
contains a note or annotation.
describes the type of note.
indicates whether the copy text shows the exact place of reference 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.
indicates the location of an inline graphic, illustration, or figure.
The display width of the image
[\-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?(%|cm|mm|in|pt|pc|px|em|ex|gd|rem|vw|vh|vm)
The display height of the image
[\-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?(%|cm|mm|in|pt|pc|px|em|ex|gd|rem|vw|vh|vm)
A scale factor to be applied to the image to make it the desired display size
(\-?[\d]+/\-?[\d]+)
(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.
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.
(line break) marks the start of a new (typographic) line in some edition or version of a text.
(column break) marks the boundary between one column of a text and the next
in a standard reference system.
in a bibliographic reference, contains the name(s) of the
author(s), personal or corporate, of a work; for example in the same
form as that provided by a recognized bibliographic name authority.
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 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.
(responsibility) contains a phrase describing the nature of a person's intellectual responsibility.
contains a title for any kind of work.
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.
(scope of citation) defines the scope of a bibliographic reference, for example as a
list of page numbers, or a named subdivision of a larger work.
identifies the type of information conveyed by the element, e.g.
columns, pages, volume.
Suggested values include: 1] vol(volume) ; 2] issue; 3] pp(pages) ; 4] ll (lines) ; 5] chap(chapter) ; 6] part
vol
(volume) the element contains a volume number.
issue
the element contains an issue number, or volume and
issue numbers.
pp
(pages) the element contains a page number or page range.
ll
(lines) the element contains a line number or line range.
chap
(chapter) the element contains a chapter indication (number
and/or title)
part
the element identifies a part of a book or collection.
specifies the starting point of the range of units indicated by the type attribute.
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
specifies the end-point of the range of units indicated by the type attribute.
(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+
(publication place) contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was published.
(bibliographic citation) contains a loosely-structured bibliographic citation of which the sub-components may or may
not be explicitly tagged.
(citation list) contains a list of bibliographic citations of any kind.
contains or references some other bibliographic item which is related to the present one in
some specified manner, for example as a constituent or alternative version of it.
points to the related bibliographic element by means of an
absolute or relative URI reference
(verse line) contains a single, possibly incomplete, line of verse.
specifies whether or not the line is metrically complete.
Y
(yes) the line is metrically incomplete
N
(no) either the line is complete, or no claim is made as to its completeness
I
(initial) the initial part of an incomplete line
M
(medial) a medial part of an incomplete line
F
(final) 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) An individual speech in a performance text, or a passage presented as such in a prose or
verse text.
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.
Suggested values include: 1] setting; 2] entrance; 3] exit; 4] business; 5] novelistic; 6] delivery; 7] modifier; 8] location; 9] mixed
setting
describes a setting.
entrance
describes an entrance.
exit
describes an exit.
business
describes stage business.
novelistic
is a narrative, motivating stage direction.
delivery
describes how a character speaks.
modifier
gives some detail about a character.
location
describes a location.
mixed
more than one of the above
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.
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.
(level-1 text division) contains a first-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text.
(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.
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.
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 salutations, datelines, 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.
contains a postscript, e.g. to a letter.
(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.
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.
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).
(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 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.
(back matter) contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a text.
contains text displayed in tabular form, in rows and columns.
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.
contains one cell of a table.
contains a mathematical or other formula.
supplies the name of a previously defined notation used for the content of the element.
groups elements representing or containing graphic information such as an illustration or
figure.
(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.
Y
(yes) the block is incomplete
N
(no) either the block is complete, or no claim is made as to its completeness
I
(initial) the initial part of an incomplete block
M
(medial) a medial part of an incomplete block
F
(final) the final part of an incomplete block
(arbitrary segment) represents any segmentation of text below the chunk level.
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.
all
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.
one
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.
none
no further evaluation of targets is carried out
beyond that needed to find the element specified in the
pointer's target.
(character or glyph) represents a non-standard character or glyph.
points to a description of the character or glyph intended.
(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.