| Phrase-level
encoding: general notes | The WWP does not include phrase-level encoding in textual apparatus that duplicates content elsewhere in the text. |
| Names:
general notes | Overview of the WWP’s encoding of names, including personal names, place names, organizational names, and the names of objects |
| Names
of humans | Discussion of the encoding of human names using <persName>, including criteria for identifying creatures as human, and guidelines for nesting name elements |
| Names
of places | Discussion of encoding the names of places using <placeName>, including definition of “place” and relationship between place names and personal names |
| Names
of non-humans and things | Discussion of the encoding of the names of non-human creatures, things, and events using <name> |
| Names
of collectivities and
organizations | Discussion of encoding the names of collectivities and organizations using <name> and <orgName>, including distinctions between collectivities and organizations |
| Names:
difficult cases | Discussion of some difficult cases in the encoding of names, including lists of boundary cases |
| Names:
problems of multiple
reference | Discussion of encoding personal names that refer to more than one person |
| Names:
abbreviations | Encoding of abbreviated versions of names |
| Name
keys | Use of the key= attribute on <persName> to uniquely identify individuals |
| Special
terminology, irony, and other forms of textual
highlighting | Encoding of specialized language, including technical terminology, ironic usage, and words which are being discussed as words rather than used |
| Emphasis | The <emph> element should be used for linguistic emphasis, where that can be distinguished from casual or decorative highlighting and from other motivating factors such as titles, foreign words, and so forth. |
| Abbreviations | Encoding of abbreviations using <abbr>, including a list of common abbreviations which are not tagged, and treatment of punctuation |
| Abbreviations
and <orig> | Use of the <abbr> element in connection with old-style typography |
| Authors
in the main text | Encoding of authors in bibliographic entries, using <author> and <persName> |
| Titles
in the main text | Encoding of titles in bibliographic entries and in running prose, using <title>, including criteria for identifying titles |
| Foreign
words and phrases | Encoding foreign-language words and phrases using the lang= attribute on existing elements, and the <foreign> element when necessary |
| <mcr> | The WWP uses <mcr> to encode phrase-level renditionally distinct words and phrases that cannot be assigned to any more specific category. |
| Simple
highlighting | Encoding of simple renditional highlighting using <hi> |
| Proper
adjectives | Encoding of proper adjectives using <mcr> |
| Referencing
strings (the <rs>
element) | Use of the <rs> element |
| Measures
and numbers | Encoding of numbers and measurements using <measure> |
| Dates:
general
| Encoding dates using <date> and the value= attribute, including detailed instructions on the ISO8601 standard for date values |
| Dates:
date ranges | Encoding date ranges using the <date> element rather than <dateRange> |
| Dates,
errors in | Encoding errors in dates |
| Dates:
BC dates | Encoding of BC dates |
| Dates:
Julian calendar and old-style
dates | Encoding of old-style dates and dates expressed in the Julian calendar |
| Time | Encoding of time using <time> and the value= attribute; our usage limited to cases which are used to structure a set of entries in a journal or log |
| <unknown> | Use of the <unknown> element as a placeholder to flag textual features for which the correct encoding is uncertain |