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<textLang>

text language

describes the languages and writing systems identified within the bibliographic work being described, rather than its description.

Module coreCOBICOImslangs

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
@mainLangsupplies a code which identifies the chief language used in the bibliographic work.
Status
Datatype
teidata.language
@otherLangsone or more codes identifying any other languages used in the bibliographic work.
Status
Datatype
0–∞ occurrences of teidata.language separated by whitespace

Classes and content

Member of
model.biblPartmodel.msItemPart
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

gaiji

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

nets

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

core

msdescription

Note

This element should not be used to document the languages or writing systems used for the bibliographic or manuscript description itself: as for all other TEI elements, such information should be provided by means of the global @xml:lang attribute attached to the element containing the description.

In all cases, languages should be identified by means of a standardized language tag generated according to BCP 47. Additional documentation for the language may be provided by a language element in the TEI header.

Example

<textLang mainLang="en" otherLangs="la"> Predominantly in English with Latin
glosses</textLang>

Content model

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