Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<milestone>

<milestone> marks the boundary between sections of a text, as indicated by changes in a standard reference system.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from refsys)
ed (edition) indicates which edition or version the milestone applies to.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: Any string of characters; usually a siglum conventionally used for the edition.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example: 








unit
indicates what kind of section is changing at this milestone.




Datatype: CDATA





Suggested values include:



page 
page breaks in the reference edition.




column 
column breaks.




line 
line breaks.




book 
any units termed book,
liber, etc.




poem 
individual poems in a collection.




canto 
cantos or other major sections of a poem.




stanza 
stanzas within a poem, book, or canto.




act 
acts within a play.




scene 
scenes within a play or act.




section
sections of any kind.




absent 
passages not present in the reference edition.











Default: #REQUIRED






Example: 






Note



If the milestone marks the beginning of a piece of text not
present in the reference edition, the special value absent
may be used as the value of unit.  The normal interpretation
is that the reference edition does not contain the text which follows,
until the next <milestone> tag for the edition in question is
encountered.



In addition to the values suggested, other terms may be appropriate
(e.g. Stephanus for the Stephanus numbers in Plato).












Example


<milestone n="23" ed="La" unit="Dreissiger"/>
 ...
 <milestone n="24" ed="AV" unit="verse"/>
 ...






Note



For this element, the global n attribute indicates the new number or other value for the unit which changes
at this milestone. The special value ‘unnumbered’ should be used in
passages which fall outside the normal numbering scheme (e.g. chapter
heads, poem numbers or titles, or speaker attributions in verse
drama).



Milestones for page and column should precede
milestones for line numbers. 






Module
Declared in file teicore2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled




Class
refsys





May occur within
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Declaration

<!ELEMENT milestone %om.RO; EMPTY> 
<!ATTLIST milestone  
      %a.global;
      ed CDATA #IMPLIED
      unit CDATA #REQUIRED>






See further
6.9.3 Milestone Tags








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