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<constitution>

constitution

describes the internal composition of a text or text sample, for example as fragmentary, complete, etc.

Module corpusCCAHTD

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.typed @type@subtype
@typespecifies how the text was constituted.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Legal values
single
a single complete text
composite
a text made by combining several smaller items, each individually complete
frags
(fragments) a text made by combining several smaller, not necessarily complete, items
unknown
composition unknown or unspecified
<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>

Classes and content

Member of
model.textDescPart
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

transcr

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

corpus

Note

The function of this element seems to overlap with both the @org attribute on div and the samplingDecl in the encodingDesc.

Example

<constitution type="frags">Prologues only.</constitution>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
  </content>