mei

<mei>

Contains a single MEI-conformant document, consisting of an MEI header and a musical text, either in isolation or as part of an meiCorpus element.

Module MEI.shared

Attributes


@meiversion(optional)Specifies a generic MEI version label. Allowed values are: "3.0.0" (This version of MEI.)att.meiversion
@xml:id(optional)Regularizes the naming of an element and thus facilitates building links between it and other resources. Each id attribute within a document must have a unique value. Value of datatype ID. att.id

Member of

Contained by

MEI.corpusmeiCorpus

May contain

MEI.headermeiHead

MEI.sharedmusic

Declaration


                  <classes>
                     
                     <memberOf
                           key="att.meiversion"/>
                     
                     <memberOf
                           key="att.id"/>
                     </classes>
                  <content>
                     
                     <rng:ref
                           
                           name="meiHead"
                           />
                     
                     <rng:ref
                           
                           name="music"
                           />
                     </content>

Remarks

The mei element defines an instance of a document encoded with the MEI schema. It is the document element for a single document containing a header and data. The name of this element should not be changed by any customization in order to assure an absolute minimum level of MEI compliance.

Constraint

The values in @staff must correspond to @n attribute of a staffDef element.


                  <sch:rule context="mei:*[@staff]">
                     
                     <sch:assert test="every $i in tokenize(@staff, '\s+') satisfies $i=//mei:staffDef/@n">The values in @staff must correspond to @n attribute of a staffDef
                        element.</sch:assert>
                     </sch:rule>