mei:carrierForm 

(carrier form) – The specific class of material to which the physical
carrier of the source/manifestation belongs (e.g., sound cassette, videodisc, microfilm
cartridge, transparency, etc.). The carrier for a manifestation comprising multiple physical
components may include more than one form (e.g., a filmstrip with an accompanying booklet, a
separate sound disc carrying the sound track for a film, etc.).

Element Information

Model

(mei:address) | (mei:annot) | (mei:bibl) | (mei:date) | mei:abbr | mei:expan | (mei:identifier) | (mei:lb) | (mei:num) | mei:name | mei:corpName | mei:persName | (mei:repository) | (mei:geogName) | mei:rend | mei:stack | (mei:title) | (mei:fig) | mei:bloc | mei:country | mei:district | mei:geogFeat | mei:region | mei:settlement | mei:postBox | mei:postCode | mei:street | mei:periodName | mei:styleName | mei:ptr | mei:ref | mei:symbol
Children: mei:abbr, mei:address, mei:annot, mei:bibl, mei:bloc, mei:corpName, mei:country, mei:date, mei:district, mei:expan, mei:fig, mei:geogFeat, mei:geogName, mei:identifier, mei:lb, mei:name, mei:num, mei:periodName, mei:persName, mei:postBox, mei:postCode, mei:ptr, mei:ref, mei:region, mei:rend, mei:repository, mei:settlement, mei:stack, mei:street, mei:styleName, mei:symbol, mei:title

Attributes

QName Type Fixed Default Use Inheritable Annotation
analog xs:string optional 
Contains a reference to a field or element in another descriptive encoding
system to which this MEI element is comparable.
authURI mei:mei_data.URI optional 
The web-accessible location of the controlled vocabulary from which the
value is taken.
authority xs:string optional 
A name or label associated with the controlled vocabulary from which the
value is taken.
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.
translit xs:NMTOKEN optional 
Specifies the transliteration technique used.
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.
xml:lang xs:language optional 
Identifies the language of the element's content. The values for this
attribute are language 'tags' as defined in BCP 47. All language tags that make use of
private use sub-tags must be documented in a corresponding language element in the MEI
header whose id attribute is the same as the language tag's value.

Source 

<xs:element name="carrierForm" substitutionGroup="mei:mei_model.physDescPart">
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:documentation>(carrier form) – The specific class of material to which the physical carrier of the source/manifestation belongs (e.g., sound cassette, videodisc, microfilm cartridge, transparency, etc.). The carrier for a manifestation comprising multiple physical components may include more than one form (e.g., a filmstrip with an accompanying booklet, a separate sound disc carrying the sound track for a film, etc.).</xs:documentation>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:complexType mixed="true">
    <xs:group minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="mei:mei_model.textphraseLike.limited"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.common.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.authorized.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.bibl.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.lang.attributes"/>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

Sample