Hierarchy

As the structure of individual entries varies significantly, especially in historic dictionaries, the baseline encoding has to be flexible enough to cover different structures. At the same time, however, some basic tagging rules have to be applied, in order to ensure electronic processing:

The combination of <form> and <sense> has to be tagged within <entry> and if necessary also within <sense> resp. <re>.

No further element is allowed on the level of <form> and <sense>, with the exception of <usg> for the encoding of information about usage preceding the entry.

The different meanings of one headword are tagged in separate <sense> elements.

The element <gramGrp> is repeated in <sense>, if verbs are differentiated by transitive and intransitive usage.

The element <pos> is an obligatory part of <gramGrp>; the elements <subc> and <gen> are tagged within <gramGrp> if this information is hald within the entry.

The elements of figure must not be used as empty elements with the exception of <pos> and <gen>.

Figure: Hierarchy of XML elements of the baseline encoding