<!ENTITY % a.entries '
type CDATA "main"
key CDATA #IMPLIED'>
Attributes
(In addition to global attributes)
type
indicates type of entry, in dictionaries with multiple types.
Datatype: CDATA
Suggested values include:
main
a main entry (default).
hom
a homograph with a separate entry.
xref
a reduced entry whose only function is to point to another main
entry (e.g. for forms of an irregular verb or for variant spellings:
was pointing to be, or
esthete to aesthete).
affix
an entry for a prefix, infix, or suffix.
abbr
an entry for an abbreviation.
supplemental
a supplemental entry (for use in dictionaries which issue
supplements to their main work in which they include updated information
about entries).
foreign
an entry for a foreign word in a monolingual
dictionary.
Default: main
key
(sort key)
contains a (sortable) character sequence reflecting
the entry's alphabetical position in the printed dictionary.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: any sequence of characters which, when sorted with the
other values, will produced the desired order; specifics of key
construction are application-dependent.
Default: #IMPLIED
Note
Dictionary order often differs from the collation sequence
of machine-readable character sets; in English-language dictionaries, an
entry for ‘4-H' will often appear alphabetized under
‘fourh’, and ‘McCoy' may be alphabetized under
‘maccoy’, while ‘A1', ‘A4', and
‘A5' may all appear in numeric order
`alphabetized' between ‘a-’ and ‘AA’.
The sort key is required if the orthography of the dictionary entry does
not suffice to determine its location.
Note
The global n attribute should be used to encode
the homograph numbers attached to entries for homographs.
Module
Declared in file teidict2.ent; Base tag set for dictionaries: enabled by
TEI.dictionary
