## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <symbol>

`<symbol>` | documents the intended significance of a particular character or character sequence within a metrical notation, either explicitly or in terms of other `<symbol>` elements in the same `<metDecl>`.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

`value` | specifies the character or character sequence being documented.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any available character or character sequence.
| Default: #REQUIRED

`terminal` | specifies whether the symbol is defined in terms of other symbols (`terminal="N"`) or in prose (`terminal="Y"`).
| Datatype: ( Y | N )

Legal values are:

Y | the element contains a prose definition of its meaning.
N | the element contains a definition of its meaning given using symbols defined elsewhere in the same metDecl element.

| Default: Y

Example

    <symbol value="x">a stressed syllable</symbol>
    <symbol value="o">an unstressed syllable</symbol>
    <symbol value="A" terminal="N">xoo</symbol>

Module Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Data Description May contain character data and phrase-level elements.
May contain #PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref
May occur within metDecl
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT symbol %om.RO;  %phrase.seq;>
    <!ATTLIST symbol
          %a.global;
          value CDATA #REQUIRED
          terminal ( Y | N ) "Y">

See further 5.3.8 The Metrical Declaration Element; 9.4 Rhyme and Metrical Analysis

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