étiquette contains the label associated with an item in a list; in glossaries, marks the term being defined. 목록의 항목과 관련된 표지를 포함한다; 용어집에서는 정의되고 있는 용어를 표지한다. 包含和列表中某項目相關聯的標號；在詞彙表中則用來標記被定義的字詞。 リスト中の項目に関連するラベルを示す．用語集においては，定義される用 語を示す． contient l'étiquette associée à un item dans une liste ; dans les glossaires marque le terme faisant l'objet de la définition contiene un concepto o enunciado asociado con un ítem en una lista; en un glosario marca el término que se define. contiene l'etichetta associata ad una voce in una lista; nei glossari indica il dermine che viene definito

Labels are most commonly used for the headwords in glossary lists; note the use of the global xml: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:

Vocabulary Middle English New English now loudly blooms meadow wood ewe lows bounds, frisks (cf. Chaucer, K.T.644a courser, stertingas the fyr pedit merrily cease never 字彙 簡體中文 繁體中文 塵 業 處 個 與 軍隊 疏遠 後漢出師表亲近小人，疏远贤臣，这是后汉所以倾覆衰败的原因 嘆息 認為 誠實 獲得 有關本書的版權問題，我做出以下兩點聲明。未經授權許可，請勿擅自複印。歡迎學術引用本文，然請詳細標明出處。 今天晚上，很好的月光。 我不見他，已是三十多年；今天見了，精神分外爽快。... 今天全沒月光，我知道不妙。早上小心出門，趙貴翁的眼色便怪：似乎怕我，似乎想害我。還有七八個人，交頭接耳的議論我，... ...我翻開歷史一查，這歷史沒有年代，歪歪斜斜的每葉上都寫著“仁義道德”几個字。我橫豎睡不著，仔細看了半夜，才從字縫里看出字來，滿本都寫著兩個字是喫人！書上寫著這許多字，佃戶說了這許多話，卻都笑吟吟的睜著怪眼看我。我也是人，他們想要吃我了！ 黑漆漆的，不知是日是夜。趙家的狗又叫起來了。 獅子似的凶心，兔子的怯弱，狐狸的狡猾，……

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. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press.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.

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

I wrote some critical observations upon Plautus. I wrote a long dissertation upon some lines of Virgil. I saw Mademoiselle Curchod — Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori. I went to Crassy, and staid two days.