TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<milestone>` | marks the boundary between sections of a text, as indicated by changes in a standard reference system.
Attributes: |
`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:
`n` | (number or name) indicates the new number or other value for the unit which changes at this milestone.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string of characters.
| Default: #IMPLIED
Note | 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).
`unit` | indicates what kind of section is changing at this milestone.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Legal values: |
`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 ed=La unit=Dreissiger n=23>
        ...
        <milestone ed=AV unit=verse n=24>
        ...

Note

Milestones for page and column should precede milestones for line numbers, but this and other logical requirements cannot be enforced automatically by SGML; for better validation, a concurrent markup stream may be used.

Tagset additional tag set for common core features
Class refsys [and indirectly also:] globincl
Filename `teicore2`
Parents [none]
Children [none]
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT milestone     - O  EMPTY                              >
    <!ATTLIST milestone          %a.analysis
                                 %a.linking
                                 %a.terminology
              id                 ID                  #IMPLIED
              lang               IDREF               %INHERITED

              rend               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              ed                 CDATA               #IMPLIED
              n                  CDATA               #IMPLIED
              unit               CDATA               #REQUIRED      >

See 6.9.3

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