## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <addSpan>

`<addSpan>` | (added span of text) marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text added by an author, scribe, annotator or corrector (see also `<add>`).

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes and those inherited from editIncl)

`type` | classifies the addition, using any convenient typology.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string of characters.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`place` | indicates where the addition is made.
| Datatype: CDATA

Suggested values include:

inline | addition is made in a space left in the witness by an earlier scribe.
supralinear | addition is made above the line.
infralinear | addition is made below the line.
marginleft | addition is made in left margin.
marginright | addition is made in right margin.
margintop | addition is made in top margin.
marginbot | addition is made in bottom margin.
overleaf | addition is made on the other side of the leaf.

| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

    Then they went back home.
    <addSpan place="supralinear marginright overleaf" to="p23"/>
    When they got there, ...

Note | Long additions may frequently spill from one location to another; in this case, more than one value may be given, as shown in the example above.
`resp` | (responsible) signifies the editor or transcriber responsible for identifying the hand of the addition.
| 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 Certainty and Responsibility).
| Default: %INHERITED;

Example:

`cert` | (certainty) signifies the degree of certainty ascribed to the identification of the hand of the addition.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`hand` | signifies the hand of the agent which made the addition.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document header (see section 18.2.1 Document Hands).
| Default: %INHERITED;

Example:

`to` | indicates the endpoint of the added passage, by supplying the value of the `id` attribute of an `<anchor>` or other empty element placed there.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: any valid identifier.
| Default: #REQUIRED

Example:

Note | Both the beginning and the end of the added material must be marked; the beginning by the `<addSpan>` element itself, the end by the `to` attribute.

Example

Module Declared in file teitran2; Additional tag set for Physical Transcription: enabled by TEI.transcr
Class editIncl
Data Description Empty.
May occur within ab abbr activity actor add addName addrLine address admin affiliation analytic app argument author authority back bibl biblFull biblScope biblStruct birth bloc body byline camera caption case castGroup castItem castList cell channel cit cl classCode closer colloc constitution corr country creation damage date dateRange dateStruct dateline def del derivation descrip dictScrap distance distinct distributor div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docAuthor docDate docEdition docImprint docTitle domain edition editor education emph entry entryFree epigraph epilogue etym expan extent factuality figDesc figure firstLang foreName foreign form front funder fw gen genName geogName gloss gram gramGrp graph group head headItem headLabel hi hyph imprimatur imprint interaction item itype l label lang langKnown language lbl lem lg lg1 lg2 lg3 lg4 lg5 list listBibl locale m measure meeting mentioned metDecl monogr mood name nameLink note num number occasion occupation offset ofig opener orgDivn orgName orgTitle orgType orig orth otherForm p per performance persName phr placeName pos preparedness principal prologue pron pubPlace publicationStmt publisher purpose q quote rdg rdgGrp re ref reg region rendition residence resp respStmt restore role roleDesc roleName row rs s salute seg sense series set settlement sic signed soCalled socecStatus sound sp speaker sponsor stage street stress subc supplied surname syll symbol table tagUsage tech term termEntry text tig time timeRange timeStruct title titlePage titlePart tns tr trailer trans u unclear usg view w wit witDetail witList witness writing xr xref
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT addSpan %om.RO;  EMPTY>
    <!ATTLIST addSpan
          %a.global;
          type CDATA #IMPLIED
          place CDATA #IMPLIED
          resp IDREF %INHERITED;
          cert CDATA #IMPLIED
          hand IDREF %INHERITED;
          to IDREF #REQUIRED>

See further 18.1.4 Additions and Deletions

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