`<gap>` | (omitted material) indicates a point where material has been omitted in a transcription, whether for editorial reasons described in the TEI header, as part of sampling practice, or because the material is illegible or inaudible.

Attributes:

`desc` | (description) gives a description of the omitted text.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: a prose description of the material omitted.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`reason` | gives the reason for omission. Sample values include ``sampling'', ``illegible'', ``inaudible'', ``irrelevant'', ``canceled'', ``canceled and illegible''.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any short indication of the reason for the omission.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`resp` | (responsibility) indicates the editor, transcriber or encoder responsible for the decision not to provide any transcription of the text and hence the application of the `<gap>` tag.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: must be one of the identifiers declared in the document header, associated with a person asserted as responsible for some aspect of the text's creation, transcription, editing or encoding (see chapter 17 ).
| Default: %INHERITED

Example:

`hand` | In the case of text omitted from the transcription because of deliberate deletion by an identifiable hand, signifies the hand which made the deletion.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document header (see section 18.2.1 ).
| Default: %INHERITED

Example:

`agent` | In the case of text omitted from the transcription because of damage or other phenomenon resulting from an identifiable cause, signifies the causative agent.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any prose description of the agency of damage.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`extent` | indicates approximately how much text has been omitted from the transcription, in letters, minims, inches, or any appropriate unit, either because of editorial policy or because a deletion, damage or other cause has rendered transcription impossible.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any string of characters
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

Note | It is possible, but not always necessary, to provide measurements precise to the millimeter or even to the printer's point. The degree of precision attempted will vary with the purpose of the encoding and the nature of the material.

Example

Note

The `<gap>` , `<unclear>` , and `<del>` core tag elements may be closely allied in use with the `<damage>` and `<supplied>` elements, available when using the additional tagset for transcription of primary sources. See section 18.2.4 for discussion of which element is appropriate for which circumstance.

Tagsetadditional tag set for common core features
ClasseditIncl [and indirectly also:] globincl
Filename`teicore2`
Content: Empty.
Parents[none]
Children[none]
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT gap           - O  EMPTY                              >
    <!ATTLIST gap                %a.global
              desc               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              reason             CDATA               #IMPLIED
              resp               IDREF               %INHERITED

              hand               IDREF               %INHERITED

              agent              CDATA               #IMPLIED
              extent             CDATA               #IMPLIED       >

See 6.5.3

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