## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <exceptions>

`<exceptions>` | documents ways in which a writing system declaration differs from the coded character sets, base writing system declarations, and entity sets which form its bases.
Attributes | Global attributes only

Example

    <writingSystemDeclaration
         name='-//TEI P2: 1993//WSD TLG Beta code//en'
         date='1993-06-01'>
     <!-- ... -->
     <characters>
         <baseWsd name='-//TEI P2: 1993//WSD ISO 646 IRV//en'
                  authority='tei'/>
         <exceptions>
            <character> <!-- ... --> </character>
            <character> <!-- ... --> </character>
            <!-- ... -->
         </exceptions>
     </characters>
    </writingSystemDeclaration>

Module | Declared in file teiwsd2; Auxiliary tag set for Writing System Declarations
Data Description | Contains a series of `<character>` elements, each documenting one character unit of the writing system.
May contain | character
May occur within |

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT exceptions %om.RO;  (character*)>
    <!ATTLIST exceptions
          %a.global;>

See further | 25.4.2 Exceptions in the WSD

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