Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

Module

Attributes

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@status

@status(optional)Used to describe the status of a document (currently or at the time indicated by a date). Suggested values are: "draft" (Initial or preliminary version of the document.), "in-process" (Document is under development.), "candidate" (Content of the document is ready for review.), "approved" (Content of the document is reviewed and ready to be published.), "published" (Document is published.), "withdrawn" (Publication of the document has been reversed.), "embargoed" (Document cannot be published (in full or in part) due to an embargo.)

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@status(optional)Used to describe the status of a document (currently or at the time indicated by a date). Suggested values are: "draft" (Initial or preliminary version of the document.), "in-process" (Document is under development.), "candidate" (Content of the document is ready for review.), "approved" (Content of the document is reviewed and ready to be published.), "published" (Document is published.), "withdrawn" (Publication of the document has been reversed.), "embargoed" (Document cannot be published (in full or in part) due to an embargo.)

MEI.shared

@status(optional)Used to describe the status of a document (currently or at the time indicated by a date). Suggested values are: "draft" (Initial or preliminary version of the document.), "in-process" (Document is under development.), "candidate" (Content of the document is ready for review.), "approved" (Content of the document is reviewed and ready to be published.), "published" (Document is published.), "withdrawn" (Publication of the document has been reversed.), "embargoed" (Document cannot be published (in full or in part) due to an embargo.)

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att.docStatus

<change>Individual change within the revision description.

<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.

<meiCorpus>A group of related MEI documents, consisting of a header for the group, and one or more <mei> elements, each with its own complete header.

<meiHead>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.corpus

<meiCorpus>A group of related MEI documents, consisting of a header for the group, and one or more <mei> elements, each with its own complete header.

MEI.header

<change>Individual change within the revision description.

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

MEI.shared

<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.

<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 model of this attribute class is based on the att.docStatus class of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

Declaration


                                 <classSpec xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="add" ident="att.docStatus" module="MEI.shared" type="atts">
                                    
                                    <desc versionDate="2025-11-27" xml:lang="en">Attributes for describing the status of a document.</desc>
                                    
                                    <attList>
                                       
                                       <attDef ident="status" usage="opt">
                                          
                                          <desc versionDate="2025-11-27" xml:lang="en">Used to describe the status of a document (currently or at the time indicated by a
                                             date).</desc>
                                          
                                          <datatype>
                                             
                                             <rng:data type="NMTOKEN"/>
                                             </datatype>
                                          
                                          <valList type="semi">
                                             
                                             <valItem ident="draft">
                                                
                                                <desc>Initial or preliminary version of the document.</desc>
                                                </valItem>
                                             
                                             <valItem ident="in-process">
                                                
                                                <desc>Document is under development.</desc>
                                                </valItem>
                                             
                                             <valItem ident="candidate">
                                                
                                                <desc>Content of the document is ready for review.</desc>
                                                </valItem>
                                             
                                             <valItem ident="approved">
                                                
                                                <desc>Content of the document is reviewed and ready to be published.</desc>
                                                </valItem>
                                             
                                             <valItem ident="published">
                                                
                                                <desc>Document is published.</desc>
                                                </valItem>
                                             
                                             <valItem ident="withdrawn">
                                                
                                                <desc>Publication of the document has been reversed.</desc>
                                                </valItem>
                                             
                                             <valItem ident="embargoed">
                                                
                                                <desc>Document cannot be published (in full or in part) due to an embargo.</desc>
                                                </valItem>
                                             </valList>
                                          </attDef>
                                       </attList>
                                    
                                    <exemplum>
                                       
                                       <egXML xml:space="preserve" valid="true">
                                          
                                          <revisionDesc>
                                             
                                             <change isodate="2025-11-27" resp="#DR">
                                                
                                                <changeDesc>
                                                   
                                                   <p>The rightholder didn't gave publishing permission. This document has embargoed access
                                                      until 2027-01-01.</p>
                                                   </changeDesc>
                                                </change>
                                             
                                             <change isodate="2025-10-16" resp="#CG">
                                                
                                                <changeDesc>
                                                   
                                                   <p>The document has been proofread. It's ready for publishing</p>
                                                   </changeDesc>
                                                </change>
                                             
                                             <change isodate="2025-10-05" resp="#DR">
                                                
                                                <changeDesc>
                                                   
                                                   <p>The content of the document is elaborated and the document is now a candidate for
                                                      publishing. It can be proofread.</p>
                                                   </changeDesc>
                                                </change>
                                             
                                             <change isodate="2025-10-01" resp="#DR">
                                                
                                                <changeDesc>
                                                   
                                                   <p>Creation of the document.</p>
                                                   </changeDesc>
                                                </change>
                                             </revisionDesc>
                                          </egXML>
                                       </exemplum>
                                    
                                    <remarks>
                                       
                                       <p>The model of this attribute class is based on the <ref target="https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-att.docStatus.html">att.docStatus</ref> class of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).</p>
                                       </remarks>
                                    </classSpec>