<channel> (primary channel) describes the medium or channel by which a text is delivered or experienced. For a written text, this might be print, manuscript, e-mail, etc.; for a spoken one, radio, telephone, face-to-face, etc.
Attributes:
mode specifies the mode of this channel with respect to speech and writing.
Datatype: (s | w | ws | sw | m | x)
Legal values:
s spoken
w written
sw spoken to be written (e.g. dictation)
ws written to be spoken (e.g. a script)
m mixed modes
x unknown or inapplicable
Default: x
Example
   <channel mode=s>face-to-face conversation
Note
Tagsetauxiliary tag set for corpora and collections
Class
Filenameteicorp2
Content:
ParentstextDesc
Children#PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss handShift hi lang link m measure mentioned name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr ref reg restore rs s seg sic soCalled space supplied tag term time timeRange timeStruct title unclear val w xptr xref
Declaration
<!ELEMENT channel       - O  (%phrase.seq)                      >
<!ATTLIST channel            %a.global
          mode               (s | w | ws | sw | m | x) 
                                                 x              >
See 23.2.1

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