Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<gi>


<gi> (generic identifier) contains the name (generic identifier) of an element.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from sgmlKeywords)
tei indicates whether this element is part of the TEI encoding scheme (i.e. defined in a TEI DTD fragment) or not.
Datatype: (yes|no)
Legal values are:
yes this element is part of the TEI scheme.
no this element is not part of the TEI scheme.
Default: yes
Example
An <gi tei="no">LI</gi> element is roughly analagous to an <gi>item</gi> element.
Module Declared in file teitsd2; Auxiliary DTD for Tag Set documentation
Class sgmlKeywords
Data Description TEI naming rules require lower case letters for all generic identifiers, except for names derived from multi-word phrases, in which case all but the first word is capitalized.
May contain #PCDATA
May occur within
Declaration
<!ELEMENT gi %om.RO; (#PCDATA)> 
<!ATTLIST gi  
      %a.global;
      tei (yes|no) "yes">
See further 27 Tag Set Documentation; 27.1 The TagDoc Documentation Element

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