| <form> | (form information group) groups all the information on the written and spoken forms of one
headword. | 
| Attributes: | | type | classifies form as simple, compound, etc. |  |  | Datatype: CDATA |  |  | Legal values: | | simple | single free lexical item |  | lemma | the headword itself |  | variant | a variant form |  | compound | word formed from simple lexical items |  | derivative | word derived from headword |  | inflected | word in other than usual dictionary form |  | phrase | multiple-word lexical item | 
 |  |  | Default: #IMPLIED |  |  | Example: | 
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| Example |  | 
| Note |  | 
| Tagset | base tag set for printed 
dictionaries | 
| Class | dictionaries, 
dictionaryParts, dictionaryTopLevel, formInfo | 
| Filename | teidict2 | 
| Content: | May contain any of a variety of element. | 
| Parents | character entry form hom re sense superentry trans | 
| Children | #PCDATA abbr add address app att bibl biblFull biblStruct c 
caesura camera caption case castList cit cl corr damage date 
dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan figure foreign form 
formula fw gen geogName gi gloss gram handShift hi hyph itype label 
lang lbl link list listBibl m measure mentioned mood move name note 
num number oRef oVar orgName orig orth pRef pVar per persName phr 
placeName pron ptr q quote ref reg restore rs s seg sic soCalled 
sound space stage supplied syll table tag tech term text time 
timeRange timeStruct title tns unclear usg val view w witDetail xptr 
xref | 
| Declaration | <!ELEMENT form          - -  (%m.formInfo | %paraContent)+      >
<!ATTLIST form               %a.global
                             %a.dictionaries
          type               CDATA               #IMPLIED       > | 
| See | 12.3.1 |