allows texts to be marked up syntactically at any level of granularity, or mixture of granularities. For example, this paragraph (p) has been marked up into sentences (s) and clauses (cl). <s> <cl>It was about the beginning of September, 1664, <cl>that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse <cl>that the plague was returned again to Holland; </cl> </cl> </cl> <cl>for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, </cl> <cl>whither, <cl>they say,</cl> it was brought, <cl>some said</cl> from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods <cl>which were brought home by their Turkey fleet;</cl> </cl> <cl>others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. </cl> </s> <s> <cl>It mattered not <cl>from whence it came;</cl> </cl> <cl>but all agreed <cl>it was come into Holland again.</cl> </cl> </s> Verse TEI has tags for marking up verse. This example (taken from the French translation of the TEI Guidelines) shows a sonnet. <div type="sonnet"> <lg type="quatrain"> <l>Les amoureux fervents et les savants austères</l> <l> Aiment également, dans leur mûre saison,</l> <l> Les chats puissants et doux, orgueil de la maison,</l> <l> Qui comme eux sont frileux et comme eux sédentaires.</l> </lg> <lg type="quatrain"> <l>Amis de la science et de la volupté</l> <l> Ils cherchent le silence et l'horreur des ténèbres ;</l> <l> L'Érèbe les eût pris pour ses coursiers funèbres,</l> <l> S'ils pouvaient au servage incliner leur fierté.</l> </lg> <lg type="tercet"> <l>Ils prennent en songeant les nobles attitudes</l> <l>Des grands sphinx allongés au fond des solitudes,</l> <l>Qui semblent s'endormir dans un rêve sans fin ;</l> </lg> <lg type="tercet"> <l>Leurs reins féconds sont pleins d'étincelles magiques,</l> <l> Et des parcelles d'or, ainsi qu'un sable fin,</l> <l>Étoilent vaguement leurs prunelles mystiques.</l> </lg> </div> Choice tag The tag is used to represent sections of text that might be encoded or tagged in more than one possible way. In the following example, based on one in the standard, is used twice, once to indicate an original and a corrected number, and once to indicate an original and regularised spelling. <p xml:id="p23">Lastly, That, upon his solemn oath to observe all the above articles, the said man-mountain shall have a daily allowance of meat and drink sufficient for the support of <choice> <sic>1724</sic> <corr>1728</corr> </choice> of our subjects, with free access to our royal person, and other marks of our <choice> <orig>favour</orig> <reg>favor</reg> </choice>. ODD One Document