| ## Text Encoding Initiative
### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines # <%version;>

`<%version;>` | (version name) serves as the root element for a concurrent markup stream which will be used to mark page and line numbers of a reference edition of the text.
Attributes | Global attributes only
Example |
    <!DOCTYPE TEI.2 SYSTEM "tei2.dtd" [
    	   <!ENTITY % TEI.XML      'IGNORE' ><!-- SGML -->
     ]>
     <!DOCTYPE La    SYSTEM "teip2.dtd" [
            <!ENTITY % version "La">
     ]>
     <(TEI.2)TEI.2><(La)La>
     <(TEI.2)TEI.Header> ... </(TEI.2)TEI.Header>
     <(TEI.2)text>
     <(La)page n='[1]'>
       ...
     <(La)page n='4'>
       ...
     <(La)page n='5'>
       ...
     </(TEI.2)text>
     </(La)La>
     </(TEI.2)TEI.2>
Note | The version name should be short (one or two characters), as it must be prefixed to all page and line tags in the concurrent markup stream.
Module | Declared in file teipl2; Auxiliary tag set for concurrent markup of pages and lines
Data Description | May contain character data, `<vol>`, and `<page>` elements.
May contain |
May occur within |
Declaration |
    <!ELEMENT %version; %om.RR;  (#PCDATA | page | vol)*>
    <!ATTLIST %version;
          %a.global;>
See further | 6.9 Reference Systems

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