MILESTONE

  Description:
    marks the boundary between sections of a text, as indicat-
        ed by changes in a standard reference system.
  Attributes:
        ed (i.e. edition):  indicates which edition or version the mile-
              stone applies to.
        Data type:  CDATA
        Value:  Any string of characters; usually a siglum conventionally
              used for the edition.
        Default value:  #IMPLIED
        This attribute is recommended.
        n (i.e. number or name):  indicates the new number or other value
              for the unit which changes at this milestone.
        Data type:  CDATA
        Value:  Any string of characters.
        Default value:  #IMPLIED
        Remarks:  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).
        This attribute is optional.
        unit:  indicates what kind of section is changing at this mile-
              stone.
        Data type:  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 value:  #REQUIRED
        Remarks:  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 inter-
              pretation 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).
        This attribute is required.
  Example:
                 <milestone ed=La name=Dreissiger n=23>
                 ...
                 <milestone ed=La name=Dreissiger n=24>
                 ...
  Remarks:  Milestones for page and column should precede milestones for
        line numbers, but this and other logical requirements cannot be
        enforced automatically by SGML; for better validation, a concur-
        rent markup stream should be used.
  Part:  additional tag set for common core features
  Member of classes:  refsys
  DTD file:  teicore2
  May occur within:  [none]
  May contain:  [none]
  Declaration:
       <!ELEMENT milestone     - O  EMPTY                              >
       <!ATTLIST milestone          %a.analysis
                                    %a.linking
                                    %a.terminology
                 id                 ID                  #IMPLIED
                 lang               IDREF               %INHERITED
                 rend               CDATA               #IMPLIED
                 ed                 CDATA               #IMPLIED
                 n                  CDATA               #IMPLIED
                 unit               CDATA               #REQUIRED      >
  Discussed in 6.9.3, "Milestone Tags," on page 13.
  This tag is optional.

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