Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<delSpan>

<delSpan> (deleted span of text) marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise signaled as superfluous or spurious by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from editIncl)
type classifies the deletion, using any convenient typology.
Datatype: CDATA
Sample values include:
overstrike deletion indicated by line crossing out the text.
erasure deletion indicated by erasure of the text.
bracketed deletion indicated by brackets in the text or margin.
subpunction deletion indicated by dots beneath the letters deleted.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example: 








resp

  (responsible)
signifies the editor or transcriber responsible for identifying
the hand of the deletion.




Datatype: IDREF






Values: must be one of the identifiers declared in the document
header, associated with a person asserted as responsible for some
aspect of the text's creation, transcription, editing, or encoding
(see chapter 17 Certainty and Responsibility).






Default: %INHERITED;






Example: 








cert

  (certainty)
signifies the degree of certainty ascribed to the
identification of the hand of the deletion.




Datatype: CDATA






Default: #IMPLIED






Example: 








hand
signifies the hand of the agent which made the deletion.




Datatype: IDREF






Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document
header (see section 18.2.1 Document Hands).






Default: %INHERITED;






Example: 








to
identifies the endpoint of the deleted passage,
by supplying the value of the id
attribute of an <anchor> or other empty element placed there.




Datatype: IDREF






Values: any valid identifier.






Default: #REQUIRED






Example: 






Note



Both the beginning and the end of the deleted material
must
be marked; the beginning by the <delSpan> element itself, the
end by the to attribute.  The element pointed at by
to is understood to be included within the deleted
passage.








status
indicates whether the deletion is faulty, e.g. by including too
much or too little text.




Datatype: CDATA





Sample values include:



excess start
some text at the beginning of the deletion is marked as
deleted even though it clearly should not be deleted.




excess end
some text at the end of the deletion is marked as
deleted even though it clearly should not be deleted.




short start
some text at the beginning of the deletion is not marked as
deleted even though it clearly should be.




short end
some text at the end of the deletion is not marked as
deleted even though it clearly should be.




unremarkable
the deletion is not faulty.











Default: unremarkable






Example: 






Note









Marking a deletion as faulty is inescapably an interpretive act;
the usual test applied in practice is the linguistic acceptability of
the text with and without the letters or words in question.




















Example


<p>Paragraph partially deleted.  This is the undeleted
portion <delSpan resp="author" to="a23"/>and this the deleted
portion of the paragraph.</p>
<p>Paragraph deleted together with neighboring material.</p>
<p>Second fully deleted paragraph.</p>
<p>Paragraph partially deleted; in the middle of this
paragraph the deletion ends and the anchor point marks
the resumption <anchor id="a23"/> of the text. ...</p>






Note



Both the beginning and ending of the deleted sequence
must be marked:  the beginning by the <delSpan> element, the
ending by the target of the to attribute.



The text deleted must be at least partially legible, in order for
the encoder to be able to transcribe it.  If it is not legible at
all, the <delSpan> tag should not be used.  Rather, the
<gap> tag should be employed to signal that text cannot be
transcribed, with the value of the reason attribute giving
the cause for the omission from the transcription as deletion.  If it
is not fully legible, the <unclear> element should be used to
signal the areas of text which cannot be read with confidence.  See
further sections 18.1.7 Text Omitted from or Supplied in the Transcription and, for the close association of
the <delSpan> tag with the <gap>, <damage>,
<unclear> and <supplied> elements, 18.2.4 Use of the Gap, Del, Damage, Unclear and Supplied Tags in Combination.



The <delSpan> tag should not be used for deletions made by
editors or encoders.  In these cases, either the <corr> tag or
the <gap> tag should be used.






Module
Declared in file teitran2; Additional tag set for Physical Transcription: enabled by
TEI.transcr





Class
editIncl





Data Description
May contain character data and phrase-level elements.




May occur within
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Declaration

<!ELEMENT delSpan %om.RO;  EMPTY> 
<!ATTLIST delSpan  
      %a.global;
      type CDATA #IMPLIED
      resp IDREF %INHERITED;
      cert CDATA #IMPLIED
      hand IDREF %INHERITED;
      to IDREF #REQUIRED
      status CDATA "unremarkable">






See further
18.1.4 Additions and Deletions








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