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The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<correction>


<correction> (correction principles) states how and under what circumstances corrections have been made in the text.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from declarable)
status indicates the degree of correction applied to the text.
Datatype: (high | medium | low | unknown)
Legal values are:
high the text has been thoroughly checked and proofread.
medium the text has been checked at least once.
low the text has not been checked.
unknown the correction status of the text is unknown.
Default: unknown
method indicates the method adopted to indicate corrections within the text.
Datatype: (silent | tags)
Legal values are:
silent corrections have been made silently
tags corrections have been represented using editorial tags
Default: silent
Example
<correction><p>Errors in transcription controlled by using the
WordPerfect spelling checker, with a user defined dictionary of 500
extra words taken from Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary.</p>
</correction>
Note

May be used to note the results of proof reading the text against its original, indicating (for example) whether discrepancies have been silently rectified, or recorded using the editorial tags described in section 6.5 Simple Editorial Changes.

Module Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class declarable
May contain p
May occur within editorialDecl
Declaration
<!ELEMENT correction %om.RO; (p+)> 
<!ATTLIST correction  
      %a.global;
      %a.declarable;
      status (high | medium | low | unknown) "unknown"
      method (silent | tags) "silent">
See further 5.3.3 The Editorial Practices Declaration; 23.3.2 Declarable Elements

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