The conservative form of a traditional printed dictionary, because of its implicit information, is satisfactory for users, but not for various computer systems, which require information types to be set out explicitly. For encoding the text of the printed dictionary TEI Guidelines were consulted. The encoding format has to adhere to the rigorous principles of traditional dictionaries and present them in such a way as to facilitate dictionary reusability and automatic processing. The tags provide an indication of the content of the fields they delimit. The tags serve to group information relating to each component.
Exceptional cases are still characteristic of lexical data.
Information of the same kind can appear at different levels in the same entry. Orthography and stress of a single element lexeme are not separated. Definitions describe the meaning of some lexical item, most often of the headword of the entry, while in some cases they describe examples. Definitions and translations are usually accompanied by examples. Attributes help to define usage more precisely.