Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

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@meiversion, @xml:id

@meiversion(required)Specifies a generic MEI version label. Allowed values are: "6.0-dev" (Version of MEI), "6.0-dev+basic" (Version of MEI Basic customization)

@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 is a valid xml:id.

att.id(MEI.shared) Attributes that uniquely identify an element.

@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 is a valid xml:id.

att.meiVersion(MEI.shared) Attributes that record the version of MEI in use.

@meiversion(required)Specifies a generic MEI version label. Allowed values are: "6.0-dev" (Version of MEI), "6.0-dev+basic" (Version of MEI Basic customization)

MEI.shared

@meiversion(required)Specifies a generic MEI version label. Allowed values are: "6.0-dev" (Version of MEI), "6.0-dev+basic" (Version of MEI Basic customization)

@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 is a valid xml:id.

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(mei isn't member of any model class)

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<meiHead>(MEI header) – Supplies the descriptive and declarative metadata prefixed to every MEI-conformant text.

<music>Contains a single musical text of any kind, whether unitary or composite, for example, an etude, opera, song cycle, symphony, or anthology of piano solos.

MEI.header

<meiHead>(MEI header) – Supplies the descriptive and declarative metadata prefixed to every MEI-conformant text.

MEI.shared

<music>Contains a single musical text of any kind, whether unitary or composite, for example, an etude, opera, song cycle, symphony, or anthology of piano solos.

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.

Constraints

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

Declaration


                                 <elementSpec rend="add" ident="mei" module="MEI.shared"><desc xml:lang="en">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.</desc>
                                    <classes>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.id"/>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.meiVersion"/>
                                       
                                       </classes>
                                    <content>
                                       
                                       <ref name="meiHead"/>
                                       
                                       <ref name="music"/>
                                       </content>
                                    <constraintSpec ident="Check_staff" scheme="schematron">
                                       
                                       <constraint>
                                          
                                          <sch:rule context="mei:*[@staff]">
                                             
                                             <sch:assert test="every $i in tokenize(normalize-space(@staff), '\s+') satisfies $i=//mei:staffDef/@n">The values in @staff must correspond to @n attribute of a staffDef
                                                element.</sch:assert>
                                             </sch:rule>
                                          </constraint>
                                       </constraintSpec>
                                    <remarks xml:lang="en">
                                       
                                       <p>The <gi scheme="MEI">mei</gi> 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.</p>
                                       </remarks>
</elementSpec>