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Tag
A tag is a machine-readable description which denotes that the text following the tag has a specific quality or meaning. Tags are encapsulated in angle brackets and always come in pairs. The first tag switches on the characteristic and the second tag, which always begins with a back slash, turns off the characteristic. For example, in EAD, the tag for encoding the date of a record is
