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General
The EAD tag library provides instructions on EAD tags, and where and how they can be used. EAD is a semantic, or meaningful, mark-up language, and doesn't make use of tags such as <strong> (for bold).
EAD consists of elements and attributes, which modify, or give more information about, elements. Instructions for applying these are also provided in the tag library.
If you wish, you can add rendering instructions to this mark-up, using the 'render' attribute value:
<p>... <title render="italic">The Stuff of Dreams</title></p>
Element and attribute names need to be in lower case, and attribute values must be within double quote marks:
<subject source="lcsh">Genealogy</subject>
Tags need to be properly paired and nested:
<note><p>His last play, <title>Celia</title>, was published in <date>1932</date>.</p></note>
As well as 'well-formed' EAD, you need to create valid EAD, which conforms to the EAD 2002 DTD, and we have further information on the Hub EAD on our page EAD for the Hub.
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