mei:physDesc

(physical description) – Container for information about the appearance,
construction, or handling of physical materials, such as their dimension, quantity, color,
style, and technique of creation.

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.
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

Source

<xs:element name="physDesc">
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:documentation>(physical description) – Container for information about the appearance, construction, or handling of physical materials, such as their dimension, quantity, color, style, and technique of creation.</xs:documentation>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="mei:mei_model.pLike"/>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="mei:mei_model.physDescPart"/>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.common.attributes"/>
    <xs:attributeGroup ref="mei:mei_att.bibl.attributes"/>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

Sample