## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <closer>

`<closer>` | groups together dateline, byline, salutation, and similar phrases appearing as a final group at the end of a division, especially of a letter.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from divbot

Example

    <div type="letter">
       <p><!-- ... -->
    perhaps you will favour me with a sight
     of it when convenient.</p>
       <closer>
          <salute>I remain, &amp;c. &amp;c.</salute>
          <signed>H. Colburn</signed>
       </closer>
    </div>

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 | divbot

May contain

#PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct dateline del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s salute seg sic signed soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref

May occur within | back body div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 epilogue group lg performance prologue

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT closer %om.RO; (#PCDATA | signed | dateline | salute
                        | %m.phrase; | %m.Incl;)* >
    <!ATTLIST closer
          %a.global;>

See further | 7.2.4 Content of Textual Divisions; 7.2 Elements Common to All Divisions

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