List of Elements Described

Appendix A.1 Global Attributes

All elements in the TEI Lite document type definition have the following global attributes:

ana: links an element with its interpretation.
corresp: links an element with one or more other corresponding elements.
id: Unique identifier for the element; must begin with a letter, can contain letters, digits, hyphens, and periods.
lang: language of the text in this element; if not specified, language is assumed to be the same as in the surrounding context.
n: Name or number of this element; may be any string of characters. Often used for recording traditional reference systems.
next: links an element to the next element in an aggregate.
prev: links an element to the previous element in an aggregate.
rend: physical realization of the element in the copy text: italic, roman,display block, etc. Value may be any string of characters.

Appendix A.2 Elements in TEI Lite

The following list shows all the elements defined for the TEI Lite DTD, with a brief description of each:

<abbr>: contains an abbreviation of any sort; expansion may be given in the expan attribute.
<add>: contains letters, words, or phrases inserted in the text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
<address>: contains a postal or other address, for example of a publisher, an organization, or an individual.
<addrLine>: contains one line of a postal or other address.
<anchor>: specifies a location or point within a document so that it may be pointed to.
<argument>: A formal list or prose description of the topics addressed by a subdivision of a text.
<author>: 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.
<authority>: supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for making an electronic file available, other than a publisher or distributor.
<availability>: supplies information about the availability of a text, for example any restrictions on its use or distribution, its copyright status, etc.
<back>: contains any appendixes, etc., following the main part of a text.
<bibl>: contains a loosely-structured bibliographic citation of which the sub-components may or may not be explicitly tagged.
<biblFull>: contains a fully-structured bibliographic citation, in which all components of the TEI file description are present.
<biblScope>: defines the scope of a bibliographic reference, for example as a list of page numbers, or a named subdivision of a larger work.
<body>: contains the whole body of a single unitary text, excluding any front or back matter.
<byline>: contains the primary statement of responsibility given for a work on its title page or at the head or end of the work.
<catDesc>: describes some category within a taxonomy or text typology, in the form of a brief prose description.
<category>: contains an individual descriptive category, possibly nested within a superordinate category, within a user-defined taxonomy.
<catRef>: specifies one or more defined categories within some taxonomy or text typology.
<cell>: contains one cell of a table.
<cit>: A quotation from some other document, together with a bibliographic reference to its source.
<classCode>: contains the classification code used for this text in some standard classification system, which is identified by the scheme attribute.
<classDecl>: contains one or more taxonomies defining any classificatory codes used elsewhere in the text.
<closer>: groups together dateline, byline, salutation, and similar phrases appearing as a final group at the end of a division, especially of a letter.
<code>: contains a short fragment of code in some formal language (often a programming language).
<corr>: contains the correct form of a passage apparently erroneous in the copy text.
<creation>: contains information about the creation of a text.
<date>: contains a date in any format, with normalized value in the value attribute.
<dateline>: 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.
<del>: 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.
<distributor>: supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for the distribution of a text.
<div>: contains a subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text.
<div1> ... <div7>: contains a first-, second, ..., seventh-level subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text.
<divGen>: indicates the location at which a textual division generated automatically by a text-processing application is to appear; the type attribute specifies whether it is an index, table of contents, or something else.
<docAuthor>: contains the name of the author of the document, as given on the title page (often but not always contained in a <byline>).
<docDate>: contains the date of the document, as given (usually) on the title page.
<docEdition>: contains an edition statement as presented on a title page of a document.
<docImprint>: contains the imprint statement (place and date of publication, publisher name), as given (usually) at the foot of a title page.
<docTitle>: contains the title of a document, including all its constituents, as given on a title page. Must be divided into <titlePart> elements.
<edition>: describes the particularities of one edition of a text.
<editionStmt>: groups information relating to one edition of a text.
<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.
<editorialDecl>: provides details of editorial principles and practices applied during the encoding of a text.
<eg>: contains a single short example of some technical topic being discussed, e.g. a code fragment or a sample of SGML encoding.
<emph>: marks words or phrases which are stressed or emphasized for linguistic or rhetorical effect.
<encodingDesc>: documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived.
<epigraph>: contains a quotation, anonymous or attributed, appearing at the start of a section or chapter, or on a title page.
<extent>: describes the approximate size of the electronic text as stored on some carrier medium, specified in any convenient units.
<figure>: marks the spot at which a graphic is to be inserted in a document. Attributes may be used to indicate an SGML entity containing the image itself (in some non-SGML notation); paragraphs within the <figure> element may be used to transcribe captions.
<fileDesc>: contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file.
<foreign>: identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other than that of the surrounding text.
<formula>: contains a mathematical or chemical formula, optionally presented in some non-SGML notation. The notation is used to name the non-SGML notation used to transcribe the formula.
<front>: contains any prefatory matter (headers, title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.) found before the start of a text proper.
<funder>: specifies the name of an individual, institution, or organization responsible for the funding of a project or text.
<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 or inaudible.
<gi>: contains a special type of identifier: an SGML generic identifier, or element name.
<gloss>: marks a word or phrase which provides a gloss or definition for some other word or phrase.
<group>: contains a number of unitary texts or groups of texts.
<head>: contains any heading, for example, the title of a section, or the heading of a list or glossary.
<hi>: marks a word or phrase as graphically distinct from the surrounding text, for reasons concerning which no claim is made.
<ident>: contains an identifier of some kind, e.g. a variable name or the name of an SGML element or attribute.
<idno>: supplies any standard or non-standard number used to identify a bibliographic item; the type attribute identifies the scheme or standard.
<imprint>: groups information relating to the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.
<index>: marks a location to be indexed for some purpose. Attributes are used to give the main form, and second- through fourth-level forms to be entered in the index indicated.
<interp>: provides for an interpretive annotation which can be linked to a span of text. Attributes include resp, type, and value.
<interpGrp>: collects together <interp> tags.
<item>: contains one component of a list.
<keywords>: contains a list of keywords or phrases identifying the topic or nature of a text; if the keywords come from a controlled vocabulary, it can be identified by the scheme attribute.
<kw>: contains a keyword in some formal language.
<l>: contains a single, possibly incomplete, line of verse.
<label>: contains the label associated with an item in a list; in glossaries, marks the term being defined.
<langUsage>: describes the languages, sublanguages, registers, dialects, etc., represented within a text.
<lb>: marks the start of a new (typographic) line in some edition or version of a text.
<lg>: contains a group of verse lines functioning as a formal unit e.g. a stanza, refrain, verse paragraph, etc.
<list>: contains any sequence of items organized as a list, whether of numbered, bulletted, or other type.
<listBibl>: contains a list of bibliographic citations of any kind.
<mentioned>: marks words or phrases mentioned, not used.
<milestone>: marks the boundary between sections of a text, as indicated by changes in a standard reference system. Attributes include ed (edition), unit (page, etc.), and n (new value).
<name>: contains a proper noun or noun phrase. Attributes can indicate its type, give a normalized form, or associate it with a specific individual or thing by means of a unique identifiers.
<note>: contains a note or annotation, with attributes to indicate the type, location, and source of the note.
<notesStmt>: collects together any notes providing information about a text additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic description.
<num>: contains a number, written in any form, with normalized value in the value attribute.
<opener>: groups together dateline, byline, salutation, and similar phrases appearing as a preliminary group at the start of a division, especially of a letter.
<orig>: contains the original form of a reading, for which a regularized form may be given in the attribute reg.
<p>: marks paragraphs in prose.
<pb>: marks the boundary between one page of a text and the next in a standard reference system.
<principal>: supplies the name of the principal researcher responsible for the creation of an electronic text.
<profileDesc>: 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.
<projectDesc>: 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.
<ptr>: a pointer to another location in the current document in terms of one or more identifiable elements.
<publicationStmt>: groups information concerning the publication or distribution of an electronic or other text.
<publisher>: provides the name of the organization responsible for the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.
<pubPlace>: contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was published.
<q>: contains a quotation or apparent quotation.
<ref>: a reference to another location in the current document, in terms of one or more identifiable elements, possibly modified by additional text or comment.
<refsDecl>: specifies how canonical references are constructed for this text.
<reg>: contains a reading which has been regularized or normalized in some sense; original reading may be given in the attribute orig.
<rendition>: supplies information about the intended rendition of one or more elements.
<resp>: contains a phrase describing the nature of a person's intellectual responsibility.
<respStmt>: 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.
<revisionDesc>: summarizes the revision history for a file.
<row>: contains one row of a table.
<rs>: contains a general purpose name or referring string. Attributes can indicate its type, give a normalized form, or associate it with a specific individual or thing by means of a unique identifiers.
<s>: identifies an s-unit within a document, for purposes of establishing a simple canonical referencing scheme covering the entire text.
<salute>: 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.
<samplingDecl>: contains a prose description of the rationale and methods used in sampling texts in the creation of a corpus or collection.
<seg>: identifies a span or segment of text within a document so that it may be pointed to; the type attribute categorizes the segment.
<series>: contains information about the series in which a book or other bibliographic item has appeared.
<seriesStmt>: groups information about the series, if any, to which a publication belongs.
<sic>: contains text reproduced although apparently incorrect or inaccurate.
<signed>: contains the closing salutation, etc., appended to a foreword, dedicatory epistle, or other division of a text.
<soCalled>: 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.
<sourceDesc>: supplies a bibliographic description of the copy text(s) from which an electronic text was derived or generated.
<sp>: contains an individual speech in a performance text, or a passage presented as such in a prose or verse text, with who attribute to identify speaker.
<speaker>: contains a special form of heading or label, giving the name of one or more speakers in a performance text or fragment.
<sponsor>: specifies the name of a sponsoring organization or institution.
<stage>: contains any kind of stage direction within a performance text or fragment.
<table>: contains text displayed in tabular form, in rows and columns.
<tagsDecl>: provides detailed information about the tagging applied to an SGML document.
<tagUsage>: supplies information about the usage of a specific element within the outermost <text> of a TEI conformant document.
<taxonomy>: defines a typology used to classify texts either implicitly, by means of a bibliographic citation, or explicitly by a structured taxonomy.
<term>: contains a single-word, multi-word or symbolic designation which is regarded as a technical term.
<textClass>: groups information which describes the nature or topic of a text in terms of a standard classification scheme, thesaurus, etc.
<time>: contains a phrase defining a time of day in any format, with normalized value in the value attribute.
<title>: contains the title of a work, whether article, book, journal, or series, including any alternative titles or subtitles.
<titlePage>: contains the title page of a text, appearing within the front or back matter.
<titlePart>: contains a subsection or division of the title of a work, as indicated on a title page; also used for free-floating fragments of the title page not part of the document title, authorship attribution, etc.
<titleStmt>: groups information about the title of a work and those responsible for its intellectual content.
<trailer>: contains a closing title or footer appearing at the end of a division of a text.
<unclear>: contains a word, phrase, or passage which cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.
<xptr>: defines a pointer to another location in the current document or an external document.
<xref>: defines a pointer to another location in the current document or an external document, possibly modified by additional text or comment.

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Date: (revised October 2004) Author: Lou Burnard (revised SPQR).
Copyright TEI 1995

Text Encoding Initiative

Appendix A List of Elements Described

Appendix A.1 Global Attributes

Appendix A.2 Elements in TEI Lite