att.ascribed

provides attributes for elements representing speech or action that can be ascribed to a specific individual.

Module tei

Attributes

@whoindicates the person, or group of people, to whom the element content is ascribed.

Status
Datatype: 1–∞ occurrences of teidata.pointer separated by whitespace

In the following example from Hamlet, speeches (sp) in the body of the play are linked to role elements in the castList using the @who attribute.

<castItem type="role">
  <role xml:id="Barnardo">Bernardo</role>
</castItem>
<castItem type="role">
  <role xml:id="Francisco">Francisco</role>
  <roleDesc>a soldier</roleDesc>
</castItem>
<!-- ... -->
<sp who="#Barnardo">
  <speaker>Bernardo</speaker>
  <l n="1">Who's there?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#Francisco">
  <speaker>Francisco</speaker>
  <l n="2">Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.</l>
</sp>

Classes and content

Used by
Members: annotationBlockspokenatt.ascribed.directed changeheaderincidentspokenpostcmcsettingcorpusshiftspoken