specifies editorial practice adopted with respect to punctuation marks in the original. indicates whether or not punctation marks have been retained as content within the text. no punctuation marks have been retained some punctuation marks have been retained all punctuation marks have been retained indicates whether punctation marks have been captured inside or outside of an adjacent element. punctuation marks are captured inside adjacent elements punctuation marks are captured outside adjacent elements

All punctuation marks in the source text have been retained and represented using the appropriate Unicode code point. In cases where a punctuation mark and nearby markup convey the same information (for example, a sentence ends with a question mark and is also tagged as s) the punctuation mark is captured as content within the element.