<tag>  contains text of a complete start- or end-tag, possibly including attribute specifications,
                     but excluding the opening and closing markup delimiter characters. 22  Documentation Elements 
               
                  Module tagdocs — 22  Documentation Elements 
                
               
                  In addition to global attributes In addition to global attributes
                     
                        
                           type 
                           indicates the type of XML tag intended
                              
                                 
                                    Status  
                                    Optional  
                                 
                                    Legal values are: 
                                       
                                          start 
                                          a start-tag, with delimiters < and > is intended 
                                          end 
                                          an end-tag, with delimiters </ and > is intended 
                                          empty 
                                          a empty tag, with delimiters < and /> is intended 
                                          pi 
                                          a pi (processing instruction), with delimiters <? and ?> is intended 
                                          comment 
                                          a comment, with delimiters <!-- and --> is intended 
                                          ms 
                                          a marked-section, with delimiters <[CDATA[ and ]]> is intended 
                                        
                                     
                                  
                              
                            
                         
                        
                           scheme 
                           supplies the name of the schema in which this tag is defined.
                              
                                 
                                    Status  
                                    Optional  
                                 
                                    Legal values are: 
                                       
                                          TEI 
                                          (text encoding initiative) This tag is defined as part of the TEI scheme. [Default]  
                                          DBK 
                                          (docbook) this tag is part of the Docbook scheme. 
                                          XX 
                                          (unknown) this tag is part of an unknown scheme. 
                                        
                                     
                                  
                              
                            
                         
                     
                   
                
               
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                  May contain Character data only  
               
                  Declaration 
                     Compact to XML format XML format to compact <rng:element name="tag "> <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes  <rng:optional> <rng:attribute name="type "> <rng:choice> <rng:value> start</rng:value> <rng:value> end</rng:value> <rng:value> empty</rng:value> <rng:value> pi</rng:value> <rng:value> comment</rng:value> <rng:value> ms</rng:value> </rng:choice> </rng:attribute> </rng:optional> <rng:optional> <rng:attribute name="scheme " a:defaultValue="TEI "> <rng:choice> <rng:value> TEI</rng:value> <rng:value> DBK</rng:value> <rng:value> XX</rng:value> </rng:choice> </rng:attribute> </rng:optional> <rng:text/> </rng:element> 
element  tag 
{
   att.global.attributes ,
   attribute type { "start" | "end" | "empty" | "pi" | "comment" | "ms" }?,
   attribute scheme { "TEI" | "DBK" | "XX" }?,
   text
}  
                
               
                  Example 
                     Mark the start of each italicised phrase with a
<tag> hi rend="it"
</tag>  tag, and its end with a 
<tag type="end "> hi
</tag>  tag.
<tag type="comment "> Example updated on 2008-04-05
</tag>