Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

Module

Attributes

compact
full definition
by class
by module

@hand

@hand(optional)Signifies the hand responsible for an action. The value must be the ID of a <hand> element declared in the header. Value conforms to data.URI.

direct children

@hand(optional)Signifies the hand responsible for an action. The value must be the ID of a <hand> element declared in the header. Value conforms to data.URI.

MEI.sharedComponent declarations that are shared between two or more modules.

@hand(optional)Signifies the hand responsible for an action. The value must be the ID of a <hand> element declared in the header. Value conforms to data.URI.

Available at

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by module

att.handIdent

<damage>Contains an area of damage to the physical medium.

<gap>Indicates a point where material has been omitted in a transcription, whether as part of sampling practice or for editorial reasons described in the MEI header.

<unclear>Contains material that cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.

att.crit

<lem>Contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.

<rdg>Contains a single reading within a textual variation.

att.trans

<abbr>A generic element for 1) a shortened form of a word, including an acronym or 2) a shorthand notation.

<add>Marks an addition to the text.

<corr>Contains the correct form of an apparent erroneous passage.

<cutout>A cutout is a section of a document sheet that has been removed and is now missing.

<del>Contains information deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise indicated as superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.

<expan>Contains the expansion of an abbreviation.

<patch>Describes a physical writing surface attached to the original document.

<restore>Indicates restoration of material to an earlier state by cancellation of an editorial or authorial marking or instruction.

<subst>Groups transcriptional elements when the combination is to be regarded as a single intervention in the text.

att.metaMark.log

<metaMark>A graphical or textual statement with additional / explanatory information about the musical text. The textual consequences of this intervention are encoded independently via other means; that is, with elements such as <add>, <del>, etc.

MEI.critappCritical apparatus component declarations.

<lem>Contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.

<rdg>Contains a single reading within a textual variation.

MEI.edittransEditorial and transcriptional component declarations.

<abbr>A generic element for 1) a shortened form of a word, including an acronym or 2) a shorthand notation.

<add>Marks an addition to the text.

<corr>Contains the correct form of an apparent erroneous passage.

<damage>Contains an area of damage to the physical medium.

<del>Contains information deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise indicated as superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.

<expan>Contains the expansion of an abbreviation.

<gap>Indicates a point where material has been omitted in a transcription, whether as part of sampling practice or for editorial reasons described in the MEI header.

<metaMark>A graphical or textual statement with additional / explanatory information about the musical text. The textual consequences of this intervention are encoded independently via other means; that is, with elements such as <add>, <del>, etc.

<restore>Indicates restoration of material to an earlier state by cancellation of an editorial or authorial marking or instruction.

<subst>Groups transcriptional elements when the combination is to be regarded as a single intervention in the text.

<unclear>Contains material that cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.

MEI.headerMetadata header component declarations.

<cutout>A cutout is a section of a document sheet that has been removed and is now missing.

<patch>Describes a physical writing surface attached to the original document.

Constraints

@hand attribute should have content.

Each value in @hand should correspond to the @xml:id attribute of a hand element.

Declaration


                                 <classSpec ident="att.handIdent" module="MEI.shared" type="atts">
                                    
                                    <desc xml:lang="en">Attributes which identify a document hand.</desc>
                                    
                                    <attList>
                                       
                                       <attDef ident="hand" usage="opt">
                                          
                                          <desc xml:lang="en">Signifies the hand responsible for an action. The value must be the ID of a 
                                             <gi scheme="MEI">hand</gi>
 element declared in the header.</desc>
                                          
                                          <datatype>
                                             
                                             <rng:ref name="data.URI"/>
                                             </datatype>
                                          
                                          <constraintSpec ident="check_handTarget" scheme="schematron">
                                             
                                             <constraint>
                                                
                                                <sch:rule context="@hand">
                                                   
                                                   <sch:assert role="warning" test="not(normalize-space(.) eq '')">@hand attribute should
                                                      have content.</sch:assert>
                                                   
                                                   <sch:assert role="warning" test="every $i in tokenize(., '\s+') satisfies substring($i,2)=//mei:hand/@xml:id">Each value in @hand should correspond to the @xml:id attribute of a hand
                                                      element.</sch:assert>
                                                   </sch:rule>
                                                </constraint>
                                             </constraintSpec>
                                          </attDef>
                                       </attList>
                                    </classSpec>