| ed | (edition) indicates which edition or version the milestone applies to. |
| Datatype: CDATA |
| Values: Any string of characters; usually a siglum conventionally used
for the edition. |
| Default: #IMPLIED |
| Example:
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| n | (number or name) indicates the new number or other value for the unit which changes
at this milestone. |
| Datatype: CDATA |
| Values: Any string of characters. |
| Default: #IMPLIED |
| Note | 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).
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| unit | indicates what kind of section is changing at this milestone. |
| Datatype: CDATA |
| Legal values: | | 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. |
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| Default: #REQUIRED |
| Example:
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| Note | 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 interpretation
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).
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