specifies a regular expression against which the values of other attributes can be matched. specifies a replacement pattern, that is, the skeleton of a relative or absolute URI containing references to groups in the matchPattern which, once subpattern substitution has been performed, complete the URI. contains a summary or formal abstract prefixed to an existing source document by the encoder. [] (application information) records information about an application which has edited the TEI file. [] provides information about an application which has acted upon the document. [] supplies an identifier for the application, independent of its version number or display name. supplies a version number for the application, independent of its identifier or display name. (release authority) supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for making a work available, other than a publisher or distributor. [] supplies information about the availability of a text, for example any restrictions on its use or distribution, its copyright status, any licence applying to it, etc. [] supplies a code identifying the current availability of the text. free the text is freely available. unknown the status of the text is unknown. restricted the text is not freely available. (fully-structured bibliographic citation) contains a fully-structured bibliographic citation, in which all components of the TEI file description are present. [ ] (canonical reference pattern) specifies an expression and replacement pattern for transforming a canonical reference into a URI. [ ] describes a calendar or dating system used in a dating formula in the text. [] (calendar description) contains a description of the calendar system used in any dating expression found in the text. [ ] (category description) describes some category within a taxonomy or text typology, either in the form of a brief prose description or in terms of the situational parameters used by the TEI formal textDesc. [] (category reference) specifies one or more defined categories within some taxonomy or text typology. [] identifies the classification scheme within which the set of categories concerned is defined, for example by a taxonomy element, or by some other resource. contains an individual descriptive category, possibly nested within a superordinate category, within a user-defined taxonomy. [] documents a change or set of changes made during the production of a source document, or during the revision of an electronic file. [ ] points to one or more elements that belong to this change. (classification code) contains the classification code used for this text in some standard classification system. [] identifies the classification system in use, as defined by for example by a taxonomy element, or some other resource. (classification declarations) contains one or more taxonomies defining any classificatory codes used elsewhere in the text. [ ] (correction principles) states how and under what circumstances corrections have been made in the text. [ ] indicates the degree of correction applied to the text. high the text has been thoroughly checked and proofread. medium the text has been checked at least once. low the text has not been checked. unknown the correction status of the text is unknown. indicates the method adopted to indicate corrections within the text. silent corrections have been made silently markup corrections have been represented using markup contains a structured description of the place, the name of a person/organization and the date related to the sending/receiving of a message or any other action related to the correspondence [] describes the nature of the action Suggested values include: 1] sent; 2] received; 3] transmitted; 4] redirected; 5] forwarded sent information concerning the sending or dispatch of a message received information concerning the receipt of a message transmitted information concerning the transmission of a message, i.e. between the dispatch and the next receipt, redirect or forwarding redirected information concerning the redirection of an unread message forwarded information concerning the forwarding of a message (correspondence context) provides references to preceding or following correspondence related to this piece of correspondence [] (correspondence description) contains a description of the actions related to one act of correspondence [] contains information about the creation of a text. [ ] supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for the distribution of a text. [] describes the particularities of one edition of a text. [] (edition statement) groups information relating to one edition of a text. [ ] (editorial practice declaration) provides details of editorial principles and practices applied during the encoding of a text. [ ] (encoding description) documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived. [ ] describes the approximate size of a text stored on some carrier medium or of some other object, digital or non-digital, specified in any convenient units. [ ] (file description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file. [ ] (funding body) specifies the name of an individual, institution, or organization responsible for the funding of a project or text. [] (geographic coordinates declaration) documents the notation and the datum used for geographic coordinates expressed as content of the geo element elsewhere within the document. [] supplies a commonly used code name for the datum employed. Suggested values include: 1] WGS84(World Geodetic System) ; 2] MGRS(Military Grid Reference System) ; 3] OSGB36(ordnance survey great britain) ; 4] ED50(European Datum coordinate system) WGS84 (World Geodetic System) a pair of numbers to be interpreted as latitude followed by longitude according to the World Geodetic System. MGRS (Military Grid Reference System) the values supplied are geospatial entity object codes, based on OSGB36 (ordnance survey great britain) the value supplied is to be interpreted as a British National Grid Reference. ED50 (European Datum coordinate system) the value supplied is to be interpreted as latitude followed by longitude according to the European Datum coordinate system. (note on hand) describes a particular style or hand distinguished within a manuscript. [] summarizes the way in which hyphenation in a source text has been treated in an encoded version of it. [ ] (end-of-line) indicates whether or not end-of-line hyphenation has been retained in a text. all all end-of-line hyphenation has been retained, even though the lineation of the original may not have been. some end-of-line hyphenation has been retained in some cases. hard all soft end-of-line hyphenation has been removed: any remaining end-of-line hyphenation should be retained. none all end-of-line hyphenation has been removed: any remaining hyphenation occurred within the line. (identifier) supplies any form of identifier used to identify some object, such as a bibliographic item, a person, a title, an organization, etc. in a standardized way. [ ] categorizes the identifier, for example as an ISBN, Social Security number, etc. describes the scope of any analytic or interpretive information added to the text in addition to the transcription. [] contains a list of keywords or phrases identifying the topic or nature of a text. [] identifies the controlled vocabulary within which the set of keywords concerned is defined identifies the classification scheme within which the set of categories concerned is defined, for example by a taxonomy element, or by some other resource. (language usage) describes the languages, sublanguages, registers, dialects, etc. represented within a text. [ ] characterizes a single language or sublanguage used within a text. [] (identifier) Supplies a language code constructed as defined in BCP 47 which is used to identify the language documented by this element, and which is referenced by the global xml:lang attribute. specifies the approximate percentage (by volume) of the text which uses this language. 100 contains information about a licence or other legal agreement applicable to the text. [] groups a number of change descriptions associated with either the creation of a source text or the revision of an encoded text. [ ] indicates whether the ordering of its child change elements is to be considered significant or not (list of prefix definitions) contains a list of definitions of prefixing schemes used in data.pointer values, showing how abbreviated URIs using each scheme may be expanded into full URIs. [] supplies the formal name of the namespace to which the elements documented by its children belong. [] specifies the full formal name of the namespace concerned. indicates the extent of normalization or regularization of the original source carried out in converting it to electronic form. [ ] indicates a bibliographic description or other resource documenting the principles underlying the normalization carried out. indicates the method adopted to indicate normalizations within the text. silent normalization made silently markup normalization represented using markup (notes statement) collects together any notes providing information about a text additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic description. [ ] (prefixing scheme used in data.pointer values) defines a prefixing scheme used in data.pointer values, showing how abbreviated URIs using the scheme may be expanded into full URIs. [] supplies a name which functions as the prefix for an abbreviated pointing scheme such as a private URI scheme. The prefix constitutes the text preceding the first colon. (principal researcher) supplies the name of the principal researcher responsible for the creation of an electronic text. [] (text-profile description) provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects of a text, specifically the languages and sublanguages used, the situation in which it was produced, the participants and their setting. [ ] (project description) describes in detail the aim or purpose for which an electronic file was encoded, together with any other relevant information concerning the process by which it was assembled or collected. [ ] (publication statement) groups information concerning the publication or distribution of an electronic or other text. [ ] 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. none no punctuation marks have been retained some some punctuation marks have been retained all all punctuation marks have been retained indicates whether punctation marks have been captured inside or outside of an adjacent element. internal punctuation marks are captured inside adjacent elements external punctuation marks are captured outside adjacent elements specifies editorial practice adopted with respect to quotation marks in the original. [ ] On , either the @marks attribute should be used, or a paragraph of description provided (quotation marks) indicates whether or not quotation marks have been retained as content within the text. none no quotation marks have been retained some some quotation marks have been retained all all quotation marks have been retained (reference state) specifies one component of a canonical reference defined by the milestone method. [ ] specifies the fixed length of the reference component. (delimiter) supplies a delimiting string following the reference component. (references declaration) specifies how canonical references are constructed for this text. [ ] supplies information about the rendition or appearance of one or more elements in the source text. [] where CSS is used, provides a way of defining pseudo-elements, that is, styling rules applicable to specific sub-portions of an element. Sample values include: 1] first-line; 2] first-letter; 3] before; 4] after contains a selector or series of selectors specifying the elements to which the contained style description applies, expressed in the language specified in the scheme attribute. (revision description) summarizes the revision history for a file. [ ] (sampling declaration) contains a prose description of the rationale and methods used in sampling texts in the creation of a corpus or collection. [ ] describes a particular script distinguished within the description of a manuscript or similar resource. [] describes the principles according to which the text has been segmented, for example into sentences, tone-units, graphemic strata, etc. [ ] (series statement) groups information about the series, if any, to which a publication belongs. [ ] (source description) describes the source from which an electronic text was derived or generated, typically a bibliographic description in the case of a digitized text, or a phrase such as "born digital" for a text which has no previous existence. [] specifies the name of a sponsoring organization or institution. [] (standard values) specifies the format used when standardized date or number values are supplied. [ ] (style definition language declaration) specifies the name of the formal language in which style or renditional information is supplied elsewhere in the document. The specific version of the scheme may also be supplied. [] supplies information about the usage of a specific element within a text. [] (generic identifier) specifies the name (generic identifier) of the element indicated by the tag, within the namespace indicated by the parent namespace element. specifies the number of occurrences of this element within the text. (with unique identifier) specifies the number of occurrences of this element within the text which bear a distinct value for the global xml:id attribute. specifies the identifier of a rendition element which defines how this element was rendered in the source text. (tagging declaration) provides detailed information about the tagging applied to a document. [ ] indicates whether the element types listed exhaustively include all those found within text, or represent only a subset. defines a typology either implicitly, by means of a bibliographic citation, or explicitly by a structured taxonomy. [] (TEI header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an electronic title page for every TEI-conformant document. [ ] specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached, for example whether it is a corpus or individual text. Sample values include: 1] text; 2] corpus (text classification) groups information which describes the nature or topic of a text in terms of a standard classification scheme, thesaurus, etc. [] (title statement) groups information about the title of a work and those responsible for its content. [ ] describes a particular font or other significant typographic feature distinguished within the description of a printed resource. [] (outside metadata) provides a container element into which metadata in non-TEI formats may be placed. []