provides an attribute to indicate whether or not the element concerned is considered to mark the end of an orthographic token in the same way as whitespace. indicates whether or not the element bearing this attribute should be considered to mark the end of an orthographic token in the same way as whitespace. the element bearing this attribute is considered to mark the end of any adjacent orthographic token irrespective of the presence of any adjacent whitespace the element bearing this attribute is considered not to mark the end of any adjacent orthographic token irrespective of the presence of any adjacent whitespace no assertion is made as to whether or not the element bearing this attribute is considered to mark the end of any adjacent orthographic token.

In the following lines from the Dream of the Rood, linebreaks occur in the middle of the words lāðost and reord-berendum.

...eƿesa tome iu icƿæs ȝeƿorden ƿita heardoſt . leodum la ðost ærþan ichim lifes ƿeȝ rihtne ȝerymde reord be rendum hƿæt me þaȝeƿeorðode ƿuldres ealdor ofer...