## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <milestone>

`<milestone>` | marks the boundary between sections of a text, as indicated by changes in a standard reference system.

Attributes

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

`ed` | (edition) indicates which edition or version the milestone applies to.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string of characters; usually a siglum conventionally used for the edition.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`unit` | indicates what kind of section is changing at this milestone.
| Datatype: CDATA

Suggested values include:

page | page breaks in the reference edition.
column | column breaks.
line | line breaks.
book | any units termed book, liber, etc.
poem | individual poems in a collection.
canto | cantos or other major sections of a poem.
stanza | stanzas within a poem, book, or canto.
act | acts within a play.
scene | scenes within a play or act.
section | sections of any kind.
absent | passages not present in the reference edition.

| Default: #REQUIRED

Example:

Note

If the milestone marks the beginning of a piece of text not present in the reference edition, the special value absent may be used as the value of `unit`. The normal interpretation is that the reference edition does not contain the text which follows, until the next `<milestone>` tag for the edition in question is encountered.

In addition to the values suggested, other terms may be appropriate (e.g. Stephanus for the Stephanus numbers in Plato).

Example

    <milestone n="23" ed="La" unit="Dreissiger"/>
     ...
     <milestone n="24" ed="AV" unit="verse"/>
     ...

Note

For this element, the global `n` attribute indicates the new number or other value for the unit which changes at this milestone. The special value ‘unnumbered’ should be used in passages which fall outside the normal numbering scheme (e.g. chapter heads, poem numbers or titles, or speaker attributions in verse drama).

Milestones for page and column should precede milestones for line numbers.

Module Declared in file teicore2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class refsys
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Declaration

    <!ELEMENT milestone %om.RO; EMPTY>
    <!ATTLIST milestone
          %a.global;
          ed CDATA #IMPLIED
          unit CDATA #REQUIRED>

See further 6.9.3 Milestone Tags

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