## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <gap>

`<gap>` | (omitted material) indicates a point where material has been omitted in a transcription, whether for editorial reasons described in the TEI header, as part of sampling practice, or because the material is illegible or inaudible.

Attributes

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

`desc` | (description) gives a description of the omitted text.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: a prose description of the material omitted.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`reason` | gives the reason for omission. Sample values include ‘sampling’, ‘illegible’, ‘inaudible’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘cancelled’, ‘cancelled and illegible’.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any short indication of the reason for the omission.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`resp` | (responsibility) indicates the editor, transcriber or encoder responsible for the decision not to provide any transcription of the text and hence the application of the `<gap>` tag.
| 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:

`hand` | in the case of text omitted from the transcription because of deliberate deletion by an identifiable hand, signifies the hand which made the deletion.
| 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:

`agent` | In the case of text omitted from the transcription because of damage or other phenomenon resulting from an identifiable cause, signifies the causative agent.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any prose description of the agency of damage.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`extent` | indicates approximately how much text has been omitted from the transcription, in letters, minims, inches, or any appropriate unit, either because of editorial policy or because a deletion, damage, or other cause has rendered transcription impossible.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any string of characters
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

Note | It is possible, but not always necessary, to provide measurements precise to the millimeter or even to the printer's point. The degree of precision attempted will vary with the purpose of the encoding and the nature of the material.

Example

Note

The `<gap>`, `<unclear>`, and `<del>` core tag elements may be closely allied in use with the `<damage>` and `<supplied>` elements, available when using the additional tagset for transcription of primary sources. See section 18.2.4 Use of the Gap, Del, Damage, Unclear and Supplied Tags in Combination for discussion of which element is appropriate for which circumstance.

Module Declared in file teicore2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
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 gap %om.RO;  EMPTY>
    <!ATTLIST gap
          %a.global;
          desc CDATA #IMPLIED
          reason CDATA #IMPLIED
          resp IDREF %INHERITED;
          hand IDREF %INHERITED;
          agent CDATA #IMPLIED
          extent CDATA #IMPLIED>

See further 6.5.3 Additions, Deletions, and Omissions

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