TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<quotation>` | specifies editorial practice adopted with respect to quotation marks in the original.
Attributes: |
`marks` | indicates whether or not quotation marks have been retained as content within the text.
| Datatype: (none | some | all)
| Legal values: |
`none` | no quotation marks have been retained
`some` | some quotation marks have been retained
`all` | all quotation marks have been retained
| Default: all
`form` | specifies how quotation marks are indicated within the text.
| Datatype: (data | rend | std | nonstd | unknown)
| Legal values: |
`data` | quotation marks are retained as data.
`rend` | the `rendition` attribute is consistently used to indicate the form of quotation marks.
`std` | use of quotation marks has been standardized.
`nonstd` | quotation marks are represented inconsistently.
`unknown` | use of quotation marks is unknown.
| Default: unknown

Example

      <quotation marks=none form=rend>
        <p>No quote marks have been retained. Instead, the rendition
        attribute on the Q element is used to specify what kinds of
        quote mark was used, according to the following list:
        <list type=gloss>
          <label>dq  </label><item>double quotes open and close</item>
          <label>sq  </label><item>single quotes open and close</item>
          <label>dash</label><item>long dash open</item>
          <label>dg  </label><item>double guillemets open and close</item>
        </list>
      </quotation>

Example

      <quotation marks=all form=std>
      <p>All quotation marks are retained in the text and are
       represented by standard entity references
      </quotation>

Note
Tagset auxiliary tag set for TEI headers
Class declarable
Filename `teihdr2`
Content:
Parents editorialDecl
Children p
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT quotation     - O  (p+)                               >
    <!ATTLIST quotation          %a.global
                                 %a.declarable
              marks              (none | some | all) all
              form               (data | rend | std | nonstd |
                                 unknown)            unknown        >

See 5.3.3 ; 23.3.2

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