Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<normalization>

<normalization> indicates the extent of normalization or regularization of the original source carried out in converting it to electronic form.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from declarable)
source indicates the authority for any normalization carried out.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: Should really be a bibliographic reference of some kind
Default: #IMPLIED
method indicates the method adopted to indicate normalizations within the text.
Datatype: ( silent | tags )
Legal values are:
silent normalization made silently
tags normalization represented using editorial tags
Default: silent
Example 
<editorialDecl>
  <normalization source="WWP" method="tags">
    <p>The use of both upper- and lower-case i, j, u, v, and vv has
      been normalized to modern 20th century typographical practices
      using the <seg type="ident" subtype="gi">orig</seg> element and
      its <seg type="ident" subtype="att ">reg</seg> attribute. ... </p>
    <!-- ... -->
  </normalization>
  <normalization source="WWP" method="silent">
    <p>Spacing between words and following punctuation has been
      regularized to zero spaces; spacing between words has been
      regularized to one space.</p>
  </normalization>
  <!-- ... -->
</editorialDecl>
Module Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class declarable
May contain p
May occur within editorialDecl
Declaration 
<!ELEMENT normalization %om.RO; (p+)> 
<!ATTLIST normalization  
      %a.global;
      %a.declarable;
      source CDATA #IMPLIED
      method ( silent | tags ) "silent">
See further 5.3.3 The Editorial Practices Declaration; 23.3.2 Declarable Elements

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