| <constitution> |
describes the internal composition of a text or text sample,
for example
as fragmentary, complete, etc. |
| Attributes |
(In addition to global attributes)
| type
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specifies how the text was constituted.
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Datatype: (single | composite | frags | unknown)
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Legal values are:
| single |
a single complete text
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| composite |
a text made by combining several smaller
items, each individually complete
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| frags |
a text made by combining several smaller, not
necessarily complete, items
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| unknown |
composition unknown or unspecified
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Default: single |
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| Example |
<constitution type="frags">Prologues only.</constitution>
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| Note |
The function of this element seems to overlap with both
the ORG attribute on DIVs and the samplingDecl in the encodingDesc.
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| Module |
Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by
TEI.corpus
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| Data Description |
contains any sequence of phrase level data |
| May contain |
#PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref |
| May occur within |
textDesc |
| Declaration |
<!ELEMENT constitution %om.RO; %phrase.seq;>
<!ATTLIST constitution
%a.global;
type (single | composite | frags | unknown) "single">
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| See further |
23.2.1 The Text Description |
