`<del>` | (deletion) contains a letter, word or passage deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise indicated as superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an author, scribe, annotator or corrector.

Attributes:

`rend` | (rendition) indicates how the deletion was indicated in the copy text.
| Datatype: CDATA

Legal values:

`subpunction` | dots below the line indicate matter to be deleted.
`overstrike` | lines through the text indicated matter to be deleted.
`erasure` | material to be deleted has been erased (but remains legible enough to transcribe).
`bracketed` | brackets around the material indicate that it is spurious or superfluous.

| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`type` | classifies the type of deletion using any convenient typology.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any string identifying the class of deletion.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

Note | No recommendation of any particular typology is made here; to record the manner in which the deletion is signaled, use `rend` , not `type` .

`status` | may be used to indicate faulty deletions, e.g. strikeouts which include too much or too little text.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any description of flaws in the marking of a deletion, e.g. ``excess left'', ``excess right'', ``short left'', ``short right''.
| Default: 'unremarkable'

Example:

Note | Status information on each deletion is needed rather rarely except in critical editions from authorial manuscripts.
`resp` | (responsible) signifies the editor or transcriber responsible for identifying the hand of the deletion.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: must be one of the identifiers declared in the document header, associated with a person asserted as responsible for some aspect of the text's creation, transcription, editing or encoding (see chapter 17 ).
| Default: %INHERITED

Example:

`cert` | (certainty) signifies the degree of certainty ascribed to the identification of the hand of the deletion.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`hand` | signifies the hand of the agent which made the deletion.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document header (see section 18.2.1 ).
| Default: %INHERITED

Example:

Example

    <l><del type=overtyped>Mein</del> Frisch
       <del type=overstrike>schwebt</del> weht der Wind

Note

Cf. `<gap>` .

Degrees of uncertainty over what can still be read may be indicated by use of the `<certainty>` element (see 17 ).

This element should be used for deletion of shorter sequences of text, typically single words or phrases. The `<delSpan>` element should be used for longer sequences of text, for those containing structural subdivisions, and for those containing overlapping additions and deletions.

The text deleted must be at least partially legible, in order for the encoder to be able to transcribe it. If it is not legible at all, the `<del>` tag should not be used. Rather, the `<gap>` tag should be employed to signal that text cannot be transcribed, with the value of the `reason` attribute giving the cause for the omission from the transcription as deletion. If it is not fully legible, the `<unclear>` element (available when using the additional tagset for transcription of primary sources) should be used to signal the areas of text which cannot be read with confidence. See further sections 18.1.7 and, for the close association of the `<del>` tag with the `<gap>` , `<damage>` , `<unclear>` and `<supplied>` elements (the latter three tags available when using the additional tagset for transcription of primary sources), 18.2.4 .

The `<del>` tag should not be used for deletions made by editors or encoders. In these cases, either the `<corr>` tag or the `<gap>` tag should be used.

Tagset additional tag set for common core features
Class edit [and indirectly also:] phrase
Filename `teicore2`
Content: May contain character data and phrase-level elements.
Parents ab abbr activity actor add addName addrLine admin affiliation author authority bibl biblScope birth bloc byline camera caption case castItem catDesc cell channel cl classCode closer colloc constitution corr country creation damage dataDesc date dateRange def del derivation desc descrip distance distinct distributor docAuthor docDate docEdition docImprint domain edition editor education emph equiv etym expan extent fDescr factuality figDesc firstLang foreign forename form fsDescr funder fw gen genName gloss gram gramGrp head headItem headLabel hi hyph imprimatur interaction item itype l label lang langKnown language lbl lem locale measure meeting mentioned mood name nameLink note num number occasion occupation opener orgDivn orgName orgTitle orgType orig orth otherForm p per persName phr placeName pos preparedness principal pron pubPlace publisher purpose q quote rdg re ref reg region rendition residence resp restore role roleDesc roleName rs s salute seg sense set settlement sic signed soCalled socecStatus sound speaker sponsor stage street stress subc supplied surname syll symbol tagUsage tech term time timeRange title titlePart tns tr trailer trans u unclear usg valDesc view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref
Children#PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss handShift hi lang link m measure mentioned name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr ref reg restore rs s seg sic soCalled space supplied tag term time timeRange timeStruct title unclear val w xptr xref
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT del           - -  (%phrase.seq;)                     >
    <!ATTLIST del                %a.analysis
                                 %a.linking
                                 %a.terminology
              id                 ID                  #IMPLIED
              n                  CDATA               #IMPLIED
              lang               IDREF               %INHERITED

              rend               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              type               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              status             CDATA               'unremarkable'
              resp               IDREF               %INHERITED

              cert               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              hand               IDREF               %INHERITED     >

See 6.5.3

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