mei:incipText

Opening words of a musical composition.

Element Information

Model

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.
label xs:string optional
Provides a name or label for an element. The value may be any
string.
mimetype xs:string optional
Specifies the applicable MIME (multimedia internet mail extension) type.
The value should be a valid MIME media type defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force
in RFC 2046.
n optional
Provides a number-like designation for an element.
target restriction of list of mei:mei_data.URI optional
Allows the use of one or more previously-undeclared URIs to identify
passive participants in a relationship; that is, the entities pointed
"to".
targettype xs:NMTOKEN optional
Characterization of target resource(s) using any convenient classification
scheme or typology.
translit xs:NMTOKEN optional
Specifies the transliteration technique used.
xlink:actuate restriction of xs:token optional
Defines whether a link occurs automatically or must be requested by the
user.
xlink:role mei:mei_data.URI optional
Characterization of the relationship between resources. The value of the
role attribute must be a URI.
xlink:show restriction of xs:token optional
Defines how a remote resource is rendered.
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.

Used By

Source

<xs:element name="incipText">
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:documentation>Opening words of a musical composition.</xs:documentation>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
      <xs:element ref="mei:mei_model.pLike"/>
      <xs:element ref="mei:mei_model.lgLike"/>
    </xs:choice>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.common.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.bibl.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.lang.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.pointing.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.internetmedia.attributes"/>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

Sample