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<measure>

measure

contains a word or phrase referring to some quantity of an object or commodity, usually comprising a number, a unit, and a commodity name.

Module coreCONANU

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.cmc @generatedBy
att.measurement @unit@unitRef@quantity@commodity
att.ranging @atLeast@atMost@min@max@confidence
att.typed @type@subtype
@typespecifies the type of measurement in any convenient typology.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
<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.measureLike
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

figures

gaiji

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

core

corpus

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Examples

This example references a definition of a measurement unit declared in the TEI header: 

<measure type="weight">
  <num>2</num> pounds of flesh</measure>
<measure type="currency">£10-11-6d</measure>
<measure type="area" unitRef="#merk">2 <unit>merks</unit> of old extent</measure>
<!-- In the TEI Header: -->
<encodingDesc>
  <unitDecl>
    <unitDef xml:id="merk" type="area">
      <label>merk</label>
      <placeName ref="#Scotland"/>
      <desc>A merk was an area of land determined variably by its agricultural
productivity.</desc>
    </unitDef>
  </unitDecl>
</encodingDesc>

<measure quantity="40" unit="hogshead" commodity="rum">2 score hh rum</measure>
<measure quantity="12" unit="count" commodity="roses">1 doz. roses</measure>
<measure quantity="1" unit="count" commodity="tulips">a yellow tulip</measure>

<head>Long papers.</head>
<p>Speakers will be given 30 minutes each: 20 minutes for
presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals should not
exceed<measure max="500" unit="count" commodity="words">500
words</measure>. This presentation type is suitable for
substantial research, theoretical or critical discussions.</p>

Content model

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