Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

Module

Attributes

compact
full definition
by class
by module

@def, @metcon

@def(optional)Provides a mechanism for linking the staff to a staffDef element. Value conforms to data.URI.

@metcon(optional)Indicates the relationship between the content of a staff or layer and the prevailing meter. Allowed values are: "c" (Complete; , conformant with the prevailing meter.), "i" (Incomplete; , not enough beats.), "o" (Overfull; , too many beats.)

direct children

@def(optional)Provides a mechanism for linking the staff to a staffDef element. Value conforms to data.URI.

att.meterConformance(MEI.shared) Attributes that provide information about a structure’s conformance to the prevailing meter.

@metcon(optional)Indicates the relationship between the content of a staff or layer and the prevailing meter. Allowed values are: "c" (Complete; , conformant with the prevailing meter.), "i" (Incomplete; , not enough beats.), "o" (Overfull; , too many beats.)

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

@def(optional)Provides a mechanism for linking the staff to a staffDef element. Value conforms to data.URI.

@metcon(optional)Indicates the relationship between the content of a staff or layer and the prevailing meter. Allowed values are: "c" (Complete; , conformant with the prevailing meter.), "i" (Incomplete; , not enough beats.), "o" (Overfull; , too many beats.)

Available at

compact
by class
by module

att.staff.log

<oStaff>A staff that holds an alternative passage which may be played instead of the original material.

<staff>A group of equidistant horizontal lines on which notes are placed in order to represent pitch or a grouping element for individual 'strands' of notes, rests, etc. that may or may not actually be rendered on staff lines; that is, both diastematic and non-diastematic signs.

MEI.cmnCommon Music Notation (CMN) repertoire component declarations.

<oStaff>A staff that holds an alternative passage which may be played instead of the original material.

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

<staff>A group of equidistant horizontal lines on which notes are placed in order to represent pitch or a grouping element for individual 'strands' of notes, rests, etc. that may or may not actually be rendered on staff lines; that is, both diastematic and non-diastematic signs.

Constraints

@def attribute should have content.

The value in @def should correspond to the @xml:id attribute of a staffDef element.

Declaration


                                 <classSpec ident="att.staff.log" module="MEI.shared" type="atts">
                                    
                                    <desc xml:lang="en">Logical domain attributes.</desc>
                                    
                                    <classes>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.meterConformance"/>
                                       </classes>
                                    
                                    <attList>
                                       
                                       <attDef ident="def" usage="opt">
                                          
                                          <desc xml:lang="en">Provides a mechanism for linking the staff to a staffDef element.</desc>
                                          
                                          <datatype>
                                             
                                             <rng:ref name="data.URI"/>
                                             </datatype>
                                          
                                          <constraintSpec ident="check_defTarget_staff" scheme="schematron">
                                             
                                             <constraint>
                                                
                                                <sch:rule context="mei:staff/@def">
                                                   
                                                   <sch:assert role="warning" test="not(normalize-space(.) eq '')">@def attribute should
                                                      have content.</sch:assert>
                                                   
                                                   <sch:assert role="warning" test="every $i in tokenize(., '\s+') satisfies substring($i,2)=//mei:staffDef/@xml:id">The value in @def should correspond to the @xml:id attribute of a staffDef
                                                      element.</sch:assert>
                                                   </sch:rule>
                                                </constraint>
                                             </constraintSpec>
                                          </attDef>
                                       </attList>
                                    </classSpec>