## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <dateline>

`<dateline>` | contains a brief description of the place, date, time, etc. of production of a letter, newspaper story, or other work, prefixed or suffixed to it as a kind of heading or trailer.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from divbot, divtop

Example

    <dateline>Walden, this 29. of August 1592</dateline>

Example

    <div type="chapter">
       <p><!-- ... -->
    and his heart was going like mad and yes
     I said yes I will Yes.</p>
       <closer>
          <dateline>
             <name type="place">Trieste-Z&uuml;rich-Paris,</name>
             <date>1914&ndash;1921</date>
          </dateline>
       </closer>
    </div>

Module | Declared in file teistr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class | divtop; divbot
May contain | #PCDATA addSpan address alt altGrp anchor cb certainty date delSpan fLib fs fsLib fvLib fw gap index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lb link linkGrp milestone name pb respons span spanGrp time timeline
May occur within | back body castList closer div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 epilogue group lg opener performance prologue

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT dateline %om.RO; ( #PCDATA | date | time
                                | name | address | %m.Incl; )* >
    <!ATTLIST dateline
          %a.global;>

See further | 7.2.4 Content of Textual Divisions; 7.2.2 Openers and Closers

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