TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<list>` | contains any sequence of items organized as a list.
Attributes: |
`type` | describes the form of the list.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Legal values: |
`ordered` | list items are numbered or lettered.
`bulleted` | list items are marked with a `bullet' or other typographic device.
`simple` | list items are not numbered or bulleted.
`gloss` | each list item glosses some term or concept, which is given by a `<label>` element preceding the list item.
| Default: simple
| Example:
Note | The formal syntax of the element declarations allows `<label>` tags to be omitted from lists tagged `<list type=gloss>` ; this is however a semantic error.

Example

    <list type=ordered>
    <item>a butcher
    <item>a baker
    <item>a candlestick maker, with
    <list type=bullets>
    <item>rings on his fingers
    <item>bells on his toes
    </list>
    </list>

Example

The following example treats the short numbered clauses of Anglo-Saxon legal codes as lists of items. The text is from an ordinance of King Athelstan (924-939).

    <div1><head>Athelstan's Ordinance</head>
    <list type=ordered>
    <item n='1'>Concerning thieves.  First, that no thief is to be
    spared who is caught with the stolen goods, [if he is] over
    twelve years and [if the value of the goods is] over eightpence.
    <list type=ordered>
    <item n='1.1'>And if anyone does spare one, he is to pay for the
    thief with his wergild -- and the thief is to be no nearer a
    settlement on that account -- or to clear himself by an oath of
    that amount.
    <item n=1.2>If, however, he [the thief] wishes to defend himself
    or to escape, he is not to be spared [whether younger or older
    than twelve].
    <item n=1.3>If a thief is put into prison, he is to be in prison
    40 days, and he may then be redeemed with 120 shillings; and the
    kindred are to stand surety for him that he will desist for ever.
    <item n=1.4>And if he steals after that, they are to pay for him
    with his wergild, or to bring him back there.
    <item n=1.5>And if
    he steals after that, they are to pay for him with his wergild,
    whether to the king or to him to whom it rightly belongs; and
    everyone of those who supported him is to pay 120 shillings to
    the king as a fine.
    </list>
    <item n=2>Concerning lordless men.  And we pronounced about these
    lordless men, from whom no justice can be obtained, that one
    should order their kindred to fetch back such a person to justice
    and to find him a lord in public meeting.
    <list type=ordered>
    <item n=2.1>And if they then will not, or cannot, produce him on
    that appointed day, he is then to be a fugitive afterwards, and
    he who encounters him is to strike him down as a thief.
    <item n=2.2>And he who harbours him after that, is to pay for him
    with his wergild or to clear himself by an oath of that amount.
    </list>
    <item n=3>Concerning the refusal of justice.  The lord who
    refuses justice and upholds his guilty man, so that the king is
    appealed to, is to repay the value of the goods and 120 shillings
    to the king; and he who appeals to the king before he demands
    justice as often as he ought, is to pay the same fine as the
    other would have done, if he had refused him justice.
    <list type=ordered>
    <item n=3.1>And the lord who is an accessory to a theft by his
    slave, and it becomes known about him, is to forfeit the slave
    and be liable to his wergild on the first occasionp if he does it
    more often, he is to be liable to pay all that he owns.
    <item n=3.2>And likewise any of the king's treasurers or of our
    reeves, who has been an accessory of thieves who have committed
    theft, is to liable to the same.
    </list>
    <item n=4>Concerning treachery to a lord.  And we have pronounced
    concerning treachery to a lord, that he [who is accused] is to
    forfeit his life if he cannot deny it or is afterwards convicted
    at the three-fold ordeal.
    </list>

Note that nested lists have been used so the tagging mirrors the structure indicated by the two-level numbering of the clauses. The clauses could have been treated as a one-level list with irregular numbering, if desired.

Example

    <p>These decrees, most blessed Pope Hadrian, we propounded in the
    public council ... and they confirmed them in our hand in your
    stead with the sign of the Holy Cross, and afterwards inscribed
    with a careful pen on the paper of this page, affixing thus the
    sign of the Holy Cross.
    <list type=simple>
    <item>I, Eanbald, by the grace of God archbishop of the holy
    church of York, have subscribed to the pious and catholic
    validity of this document with the sign of the Holy Cross.
    <item>I, Ælfwold, king of the people across the Humber,
    consenting have subscribed with the sign of the Holy Cross.
    <item>I, Tilberht, prelate of the church of Hexham, rejoicing
    have subscribed with the sign of the Holy Cross.
    <item>I, Higbald, bishop of the church of Lindisfarne, obeying
    have subscribed with the sign of the Holy Cross.
    <item>I, Ethelbert, bishop of Candida Casa, suppliant, have
    subscribed with thef sign of the Holy Cross.
    <item>I, Ealdwulf, bishop of the church of Mayo, have subscribed
    with devout will.
    <item>I, Æthelwine, bishop, have subscribed through
    delegates.
    <item>I, Sicga, `patrician', have subscribed with serene mind
    with the sign of the Holy Cross.
    </list>

Tagset additional tag set for common core features
Class lists [and indirectly also:] common, inter
Filename `teicore2`
Content: May contain an optional heading followed by a series of items, or a series of label and item pairs, the latter being optionally preceded by one or two specialized headings.
Parents ab add admin argument body camera caption case castList cell colloc corr country damage def desc descrip div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docEdition emph epigraph epilogue equiv etym fDescr figDesc foreign form fsDescr gen gram gramGrp head hi hyph imprimatur item itype keywords l lang lbl lem meeting metDecl mood note number orth otherForm p per performance pos prologue pron q quote rdg ref region remarks rendition revisionDesc seg set sic sound stage stress subc supplied syll tagUsage tech title titlePart tns tr trans unclear usg view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref
Children head headItem headLabel item label
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT list          - -  (head?, ( (item*) | (headLabel?,
                                 headItem?, (label, item)*)))       >
    <!ATTLIST list               %a.global
              type               CDATA               simple         >

See 6.7

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