att.breaking

att.breaking provides an attribute to indicate whether or not the element concerned is considered to mark the end of an orthographic token in the same way as whitespace. [3.10.3 Milestone Elements]
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Membrimilestone gb pb lb cb
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breakindicates whether or not the element bearing this attribute should be considered to mark the end of an orthographic token in the same way as whitespace.
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Tipo di dati 

<rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>
data.enumerated
Sample values include
yes
the element bearing this attribute is considered to mark the end of any adjacent orthographic token irrespective of the presence of any adjacent whitespace
no
the element bearing this attribute is considered not to mark the end of any adjacent orthographic token irrespective of the presence of any adjacent whitespace
maybe
no assertion is made as to whether or not the element bearing this attribute is considered to mark the end of any adjacent orthographic token.

In the following lines from the Dream of the Rood, linebreaks occur in the middle of the words lāðost and reord-berendum.

<ab> ...eƿesa tome iu icƿæs ȝeƿorden ƿita heardoſt . leodum la<lb break="no"/>
ðost ærþan ichim lifes ƿeȝ rihtne ȝerymde reord be<lb break="no"/>
rendum hƿæt me þaȝeƿeorðode ƿuldres ealdor ofer...
</ab>