the value may contain only letters, digits, punctuation
characters, or symbols: it may not contain whitespace or word
separating characters. It need not be restricted to
numbers.
Note
The n attribute may be used to specify the numbering of chapters, sections,
list items, etc.; it may also be used in the specification of a standard reference system
for the text.
xml:lang
(language) indicates the language of the element content using a ‘tag’ generated
according to BCP 47
The value must conform to BCP 47. If the value is a private use code (i.e., starts
with x- or contains -x-) it should, and if not it may, match the
value of an ident attribute of a language element supplied in the TEI
Header of the current document.
Note
If no value is specified for xml:lang, the xml:lang value for the
immediately enclosing element is inherited; for this reason, a value should always be
specified on the outermost element (TEI).
rend
(rendition) indicates how the element in question was rendered or presented in the source text.
may contain any number of tokens, each of which may
contain letters, punctuation marks, or symbols, but not
word-separating characters.
<head rend="align(center) case(allcaps)"> <lb/>To The <lb/>Duchesse <lb/>of <lb/>Newcastle, <lb/>On Her <lb/> <hi rend="case(mixed)">New Blazing-World</hi>. </head>
Note
These Guidelines make no binding recommendations for the values of the rend
attribute; the characteristics of visual presentation vary too much from text to text and
the decision to record or ignore individual characteristics varies too much from project
to project. Some potentially useful conventions are noted from time to time at appropriate
points in the Guidelines.
rendition
points to a description of the rendering or presentation used for this element in the
source text.
The rendition attribute is used in a very similar way to the class
attribute defined for XHTML but with the important distinction that its function is to
describe the appearance of the source text, not necessarily to determine how that text
should be presented on screen or paper.
Where both rendition and rend are supplied, the latter is
understood to override or complement the former.
Each URI provided should indicate a rendition element defining the intended
rendition in terms of some appropriate style language, as indicated by the
scheme attribute.
xml:base
provides a base URI reference with which applications can resolve relative URI
references into absolute URI references.
<div type="bibl"> <head>Bibliography</head> <listBibl xml:base="http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/BWRP/Works/"> <bibl n="1"> <author> <name>Landon, Letitia Elizabeth</name> </author> <ref target="LandLVowOf.sgm"> <title>The Vow of the Peacock</title> </ref> </bibl> <bibl n="2"> <author> <name>Compton, Margaret Clephane</name> </author> <ref target="NortMIrene.sgm"> <title>Irene, a Poem in Six Cantos</title> </ref> </bibl> <bibl n="3"> <author> <name>Taylor, Jane</name> </author> <ref target="TaylJEssay.sgm"> <title>Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners</title> </ref> </bibl> </listBibl> </div>
xml:space
signals an intention about how white space should be
managed by applications.
Status
Optional
Legal values are:
default
the processor should treat white space according to the
default XML white space handling rules
preserve
the processor should preserve unchanged any and all
white space in the source
Note
The XML
specification provides further guidance on the use of this
attribute.
Note
The global attributes described here are made part of the attribute definition list
declaration of each element by including a reference to the pattern att.global.attributes in each such declaration.
