<tag>

tag

contains text of a complete start- or end-tag, possibly including attribute specifications, but excluding the opening and closing markup delimiter characters.

Module tagdocsTD

Attributes

@typeindicates the type of XML tag intended.

Status

Optional

Datatype

teidata.enumerated

Legal values

start: a start-tag, with delimiters < and > is intended
end: an end-tag, with delimiters </ and > is intended
empty: an empty tag, with delimiters < and /> is intended
pi: a pi (processing instruction), with delimiters <? and ?> is intended
comment: a comment, with delimiters  is intended
ms: a marked-section, with delimiters <[CDATA[ and ]]> is intended

<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>

@schemesupplies the name of the schema in which this tag is defined.

Status

Optional

Datatype

teidata.enumerated

Sample values

TEI: (text encoding initiative) This tag is defined as part of the TEI scheme.
DBK: (docbook) this tag is part of the Docbook scheme.
XX: (unknown) this tag is part of an unknown scheme.
Schematron
HTML

Classes and content

Member of

model.phrase.xml

May contain

Character data

character data

Contained by

analysis

cmc

post

corpus

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

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>

Content model

<content>
    <textNode/>
  </content>