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<extent>

extent

describes the approximate size of a text stored on some carrier medium or of some other object, digital or non-digital, specified in any convenient units.

Module headerHD23HD2COBICOImsph1

Attributes

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

header

textcrit

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

msdescription

Examples

<extent>3200 sentences</extent>
<extent>between 10 and 20 Mb</extent>
<extent>ten 3.5 inch high density diskettes</extent>

The measure element may be used to supply normalized or machine tractable versions of the size or sizes concerned.

<extent>
  <measure unit="MiB" quantity="4.2">About four megabytes</measure>
  <measure unit="pages" quantity="245">245 pages of source
material</measure>
</extent>

Content model

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