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<ellipsis>

deliberately marked omission

indicates a purposeful marking in the source document signalling that content has been omitted, and may also supply or describe the omitted content.

Module coreCOEDADD

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.dimensions @unit@quantity@extent@precision@scope
att.ranging @atLeast@atMost@min@max@confidence
att.timed @start@end
att.duration
att.duration.iso @dur-iso
att.duration.w3c @dur

Classes and content

Member of
model.global.edit
May contain

core

transcr

Contained by

analysis

cmc

core

corpus

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

linking

msdescription

namesdates

nets

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Note

Unlike gap, which indicates content that the encoder cannot or chooses not to represent, ellipsis indicates a passage explicitly signalled in the source document as absent. The ellipsis element is not appropriate for every use of ellipsis points, such as when they indicate that a speaker is pausing.

Examples

<lg>
  <l>What projects men make—what queer turns they take,</l>
  <l>Since <emph>steam</emph> has improved our condition;</l>
  <l>They never are still, but must cure or must kill</l>
  <l>With steam physic or steam ammunition.</l>
  <l>But a short time ago, to a quack you would go,</l>
  <l>To steam a fat man to a thinner;</l>
  <l>Now changed from all that, if you wish to get <emph>fat</emph>,</l>
  <l>Come to Barton’s and eat a <emph>steam dinner!</emph>
  </l>
  <l>Oh dear! think of a scheme, odd though it seem—</l>
  <l>I’m sure ’twill succeed if you make it by steam.</l>
</lg>
<lg>
  <l>You may sleep, you may dream, you may travel by steam,</l>
  <l>For the outcry is still to go faster;</l>
  <l>And what does it reck, should you e’en break your neck,</l>
  <l>If ’tis <emph>steam</emph> that brings on the disaster?</l>
  <ellipsis resp="#ChambersEdnbrghJrnl1880">
    <metamark function="multilineEllipsis"> * * * * </metamark>
    <desc resp="#teiProjectEditor2021">The printer omits four lines here,
skipping the second half of the second octave, before the refrain.</desc>
  </ellipsis>
  <l>Oh dear! think of a scheme, odd though it seem—</l>
  <l>I’m sure ’twill succeed if you make it by steam.</l>
</lg>

<lg>
  <l>You think you’ve lost your love </l>
  <l>Well, I saw her yesterday </l>
  <l>It’s you she's thinking of </l>
  <l>And she told me what to say</l>
</lg>
<lg xml:id="chorus">
  <label>[Refrain]</label>
  <l>She says she loves you </l>
  <l>And you know that can’t be bad </l>
  <l>Yes, she loves you </l>
  <l>And you know you should be glad</l>
</lg>
<lg>
  <l>She said you hurt her so </l>
  <l>She almost lost her mind </l>
  <l>But now she said she knows </l>
  <l>You’re not the hurting kind</l>
</lg>
<ellipsis>
  <metamark>******</metamark>
  <supplied copyOf="#chorus"/>
</ellipsis>

Content model

<content>
    <sequence>
      <elementRef key="metamark"/>
      <classRef key="model.descLike" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
      <elementRef key="supplied" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    </sequence>
  </content>