<label> contains the label associated with an item in a list; in glossaries, marks the term being defined.
Attributes:
Example

Labels are most commonly used for the headwords in glossary lists; note the use of the global lang attribute to set the default language of the glossary list to Middle English, and identify the glosses and headings as modern English or Latin.

<list type=gloss lang=ME>
<head lang=EN>Vocabulary</head>
<headLabel lang=EN>Middle English</headLabel>
<headItem  lang=EN>New English</headItem>
<label>nu</label><item lang=EN>now</item>
<label>lhude</label><item lang=EN>loudly</item>
<label>bloweth</label><item lang=EN>blooms</item>
<label>med</label><item lang=EN>meadow</item>
<label>wude</label><item lang=EN>wood</item>
<label>awe</label><item lang=EN>ewe</item>
<label>lhouth</label><item lang=EN>lows</item>
<label>sterteth</label><item lang=EN>bounds, frisks
		(cf. <cit>Chaucer, <ref>K.T.644</ref>:
                <q>a courser, <term>sterting</term>
                 as the fyr</q></cit></item>
<label>verteth	 </label><item lang=LA>pedit</item>
<label>murie</label><item lang=EN>merrily</item>
<label>swik</label><item lang=EN>cease</item>
<label>naver</label><item lang=EN>never</item>
</list>
Example

Labels may also be used to record explicitly the numbers or letters which mark list items in ordered lists, as in this extract from Gibbon's Autobiography . In this usage the <label> element is synonymous with the n attribute on the <item> element.

I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in
the composition of six, or at least of five quartos.
<list type=ordered rend=runon>
<label>(1) </label><item>My first rough manuscript, without any
intermediate copy, has been sent to the press.</item>
<label>(2) </label><item>Not a sheet has been seen by any human
eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer:
the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.</item>
</list>
Example

Labels may also be used for other structured list items, as in this extract from the journal of Edward Gibbon:

<list type=gloss>
<label>March 1757.</label><item>I wrote some critical observations
upon Plautus.</item>
<label>March 8th.</label><item>I wrote a long dissertation upon
some lines of Virgil.</item>
<label>June.</label><item>I saw Mademoiselle Curchod --
<q lang=LA>Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori.</q></item>
<label>August.</label><item>I went to Crassy, and staid two days.</item>
</list>
Example 
<list type=gloss>
<label>The fourth volume of the <title>History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</title></label>
<item>begun March 1, 1782 -- ended June, 1784.</item>
<label>The fifth volume</label>
<item>begun July, 1784 -- ended May 1, 1786.</item>
<label>The sixth volume</label>
<item>begun May 18, 1786 -- ended June 27, 1787.</item>
</list>
Tagsetadditional tag set for common core features
Classlists [and indirectly also:] common, inter
Filenameteicore2
Content: May contain character data and phrase-level elements.
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Declaration
<!ELEMENT label         - O  (%phrase.seq;)                     >
<!ATTLIST label              %a.global                          >
See 6.7

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