<constitution>

<constitution> describes the internal composition of a text or text sample, for example as fragmentary, complete, etc. 15.2.1 The Text Description
Modulecorpus — 15 Language Corpora
AttributesIn addition to global attributes
typespecifies how the text was constituted.
Status Optional
Legal values are:
singlea single complete text [Default]
compositea text made by combining several smaller items, each individually complete
frags(fragments) a text made by combining several smaller, not necessarily complete, items
unknowncomposition unknown or unspecified
Declaration
element constitution
{
   att.global.attributes,
   attribute type { "single" | "composite" | "frags" | "unknown" }?,
   macro.phraseSeq.limited
}
Example
<constitution type="frags">Prologues only.</constitution>
Note
The function of this element seems to overlap with both the org attribute on div and the samplingDecl in the encodingDesc.
Contained by model.textDescPart
May contain