## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <quotation>

`<quotation>` | specifies editorial practice adopted with respect to quotation marks in the original.

Attributes

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

`marks` | indicates whether or not quotation marks have been retained as content within the text.
| Datatype: ( none | some | all )

Legal values are:

none | no quotation marks have been retained
some | some quotation marks have been retained
all | all quotation marks have been retained

| Default: all

`form` | specifies how quotation marks are indicated within the text.
| Datatype: (data | rend | std | nonstd | unknown)

Legal values are:

data | quotation marks are retained as data.
rend | the rendition attribute is consistently used to indicate the form of quotation marks.
std | use of quotation marks has been standardized.
nonstd | quotation marks are represented inconsistently.
unknown | use of quotation marks is unknown.

| Default: unknown

Example

    <quotation marks="none" form="rend">
         <p>No quote marks have been retained. Instead, the rendition
        attribute on the Q element is used to specify what kinds of
        quote mark was used, according to the following list:
        <list type="gloss">
          <label>dq</label>
             <item>double quotes open and close</item>
          <label>sq</label>
             <item>single quotes open and close</item>
          <label>dash</label>
             <item>long dash open</item>
          <label>dg</label>
             <item>double guillemets open and close</item>
        </list></p>
      </quotation>x

Example

    <quotation marks="all" form="std">
       <p>All quotation marks are retained in the text and are
          represented by standard entity references
      </p></quotation>

Module Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class declarable
May contain p
May occur within editorialDecl
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT quotation %om.RO; (p+)>
    <!ATTLIST quotation
          %a.global;
          %a.declarable;
          marks ( none | some | all ) "all"
          form (data | rend | std | nonstd | unknown) "unknown">

See further 5.3.3 The Editorial Practices Declaration; 23.3.2 Declarable Elements

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