Text structure (ePistolarium)
From XML
The documents in the ePistolarium have the following basic structure:
<text> <body> <div xml:id="div-1" type="artifact" subtype="letter"> ... </div> <div xml:id="div-2" type="para"> ... </div> <div xml:id="div-3" type="notes"> ... </div> </body> </text>
The text
and body
elements serve as a container for the actual text. The TEI Guidelines allow for front
and back
elements as siblings of body
, but these are not used.
The type
attribute of the div
element is used to distinguish between various parts of the text, the most important ones being artifact
for the 'real' letter text and notes
for the text of (editorial) notes.