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A letter as a whole is (for lack of a specific tag) marked by the <body> element and referenced by an xml:id which goes with it.
If letters have been written over several days, possibly including several instances of salutation and date, the individual days are marked by the element <div>.
This division contains the macro-elements <opener>, <closer>, <postscript> and - lacking a specific tag again - <div type=''letterMain''>.
<opener> groups address, dateline and salutation, <closer> may also contain the address and/or dateline (the position of these elements within the letter may vary), as well as the closing salutation and signature.
The address ist enclosed by <address>, single lines within this block are marked by <addrLine>. Lines which make up the date are marked by <dateline>. Parts of the address which are taken from the envelope are marked by the attribute n=''envelope''.
Within the opener and closer, the lines which compose the salutation are marked line by line by <salute>; the signature by <signed>.
To keep the encoding compatible, no restrictions beyond those imposed by TEI P5 itself were introduced. Within the <text> part, only <body> and <div> with its attributes are needed, if <address> is used, it must contain at least one <addrLine>.