milestone

<milestone>

<milestone> marks a boundary point separating any kind of section of a text, as indicated by changes in a standard reference system, where the section is not represented by a structural element. 3.10.3 Milestone Elements

Module

core — 3 Elements Available in All TEI Documents

Attributes

In addition to global attributes

(edition) indicates the edition or version to which the milestone applies.

Status	Recommended
Datatype	<rng:ref name="data.code"/> data.code
Values	Any string of characters; usually a siglum conventionally used for the edition.

unit

provides a conventional name for the kind of section changing at this milestone.

Status

Required

Datatype

<rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>

data.enumerated

Suggested values include:

page	physical page breaks (synonymous with the pb element).
column	column breaks.
line	line breaks (synonymous with the lb element).
book	any units termed book, liber, etc.
poem	individual poems in a collection.
canto	cantos or other major sections of a poem.
stanza	stanzas within a poem, book, or canto.
act	acts within a play.
scene	scenes within a play or act.
section	sections of any kind.
absent	passages not present in the reference edition.

Note

If the milestone marks the beginning of a piece of text not present in the reference edition, the special value absent may be used as the value of unit. The normal interpretation is that the reference edition does not contain the text which follows, until the next milestone tag for the edition in question is encountered.

In addition to the values suggested, other terms may be appropriate (e.g. Stephanus for the Stephanus numbers in Plato).

Declaration

<rng:element name="milestone">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="ed">
   <rng:ref name="data.code"/>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:attribute name="unit">
  <rng:choice>
   <rng:value>page</rng:value>
   <rng:value>column</rng:value>
   <rng:value>line</rng:value>
   <rng:value>book</rng:value>
   <rng:value>poem</rng:value>
   <rng:value>canto</rng:value>
   <rng:value>stanza</rng:value>
   <rng:value>act</rng:value>
   <rng:value>scene</rng:value>
   <rng:value>section</rng:value>
   <rng:value>absent</rng:value>
   <rng:data type="Name"/>
  </rng:choice>
 </rng:attribute>
 <rng:empty/>
</rng:element>

element milestone
{
   att.global.attributes,
   attribute ed { data.code }?,
   attribute unit
   {
      "page"
    | "column"
    | "line"
    | "book"
    | "poem"
    | "canto"
    | "stanza"
    | "act"
    | "scene"
    | "section"
    | "absent"
    | xsd:Name
   },
   empty
}

Example

<milestone n="23" ed="La" unit="Dreissiger"/>
...
<milestone n="24" ed="AV" unit="verse"/>
...

Note

For this element, the global n attribute indicates the new number or other value for the unit which changes at this milestone. The special value unnumbered should be used in passages which fall outside the normal numbering scheme (e.g. chapter heads, poem numbers or titles, or speaker attributions in verse drama).

The order in which milestone elements are given at a given point is not normally significant.

Contained by

model.milestoneLike

May contain

Empty element

P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

<milestone>