## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <tagUsage>

`<tagUsage>` | (tagUsage) supplies information about the usage of a specific element within a `<text>`.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

`gi` | the name (generic identifier) of the element indicated by the tag.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: the name of an element from the current dtd
| Default: #REQUIRED

`occurs` | specifies the number of occurrences of this element within the text.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: an integer number greater than zero
| Default: #IMPLIED
`ident` | specifies the number of occurrences of this element within the text which bear a distinct value for the global `id` attribute.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: an integer number greater than zero
| Default: #IMPLIED
`render` | specifies the identifier of a `<rendition>` element which defines how this element is to be rendered.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: an identifier specified as the value of the `id` attribute on some `<rendition>` element in the current document.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <tagUsage gi="hi" occurs="28" ident="2" render="it">
    Used only to mark English words italicised in the copy text
    </tagUsage>

Module Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
May contain #PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption castList cb certainty cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib figure foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp label lang lb link linkGrp list listBibl m measure mentioned milestone move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled sound space span spanGrp stage supplied table tech term text time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear view w witDetail xptr xref
May occur within tagsDecl
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT tagUsage %om.RO; %paraContent; >
    <!ATTLIST tagUsage
          %a.global;
          gi CDATA #REQUIRED
          occurs CDATA #IMPLIED
          ident CDATA #IMPLIED
          render IDREF #IMPLIED>

See further 5.3.4 The Tagging Declaration

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