| ## Text Encoding Initiative
### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines # <form>

`<form>` | (form information group) groups all the information on the written and spoken forms of one headword.
Attributes | (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from dictionaries, dictionaryParts, dictionaryTopLevel, formInfo)
`type` | classifies form as simple, compound, etc.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Suggested values include:
simple | single free lexical item
lemma | the headword itself
variant | a variant form
compound | word formed from simple lexical items
derivative | word derived from headword
inflected | word in other than usual dictionary form
phrase | multiple-word lexical item
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:

Example

Module Declared in file teidict2; Base tag set for dictionaries: enabled by TEI.dictionary
Class dictionaryTopLevel; dictionaryParts; formInfo; dictionaries
Data Description May contain any of a variety of element.
May contain #PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption case castList cb certainty cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib figure foreign form formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap gen geogName gloss gram handShift hi hyph index interp interpGrp itype join joinGrp label lang lb lbl link linkGrp list listBibl m measure mentioned milestone mood move name note num number oRef oVar orgName orig orth pRef pVar pb per persName phr placeName pron ptr q quote ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled sound space span spanGrp stage supplied syll table tech term text time timeRange timeStruct timeline title tns unclear usg view w witDetail xptr xref
May occur within dictScrap eg entry entryFree form hom re sense superEntry trans
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT form %om.RR;  ( #PCDATA | %m.phrase; | %m.inter;
                        | %m.formInfo; | %m.Incl; )* >
    <!ATTLIST form
          %a.global;
          %a.dictionaries;
          type CDATA #IMPLIED>

See further 12.3.1 Information on Written and Spoken Forms

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