mei:body 

Contains the whole of a single musical text, excluding any front or back
matter.

Element Information

Model

mei:mei_model.mdivLike+
Children: mei:mei_model.mdivLike

Attributes

QName Type Fixed Default Use Inheritable Annotation
decls restriction of list of mei:mei_data.URI optional 
Identifies one or more metadata elements within the header, which are
understood to apply to the element bearing this attribute and its
content.
label xs:string optional 
Provides a name or label for an element. The value may be any
string.
n optional 
Provides a number-like designation for an element.
xml:base mei:mei_data.URI optional 
Provides a base URI reference with which applications can resolve relative
URI references into absolute URI references.
xml:id xs: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.

Used By

Element Group mei:mei_macro.musicPart

Source 

<xs:element name="body">
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:documentation>Contains the whole of a single musical text, excluding any front or back matter.</xs:documentation>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="mei:mei_model.mdivLike"/>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.common.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.declaring.attributes"/>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

Sample

< text xmlns = "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:sch = "http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" xmlns:rng = "http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0" >

< front>

< divGen type = "toc" />

</ front>

< body>

< schemaSpec ident = "mei" ns = "http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei" prefix = "mei_" start = "mei meiHead meiCorpus music" >

< constraintSpec ident = "set_ns" scheme = "isoschematron" mode = "add" >

< constraint>

< sch:ns prefix = "mei" uri = "http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei" />

< sch:ns prefix = "xlink" uri = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" />

</ constraint>

</ constraintSpec>

< moduleRef key = "MEI" />

< moduleRef key = "MEI.shared" />

< moduleRef key = "MEI.header" />

< moduleRef key = "MEI.neumes" />

< moduleRef key = "MEI.analysis" />

< moduleRef key = "MEI.corpus" />

< moduleRef key = "MEI.critapp" />

< moduleRef key = "MEI.edittrans" />