geoDecl

<geoDecl>

<geoDecl> (geographic coordinates declaration) documents the notation and the datum used for geographic coordinates expressed as content of the geo element elsewhere within the document.

Module

header — 2 The TEI Header

Attributes

[att.declarable ]

datum

supplies a commonly used code name for the datum employed.

Status

Mandatory when applicable

Datatype

<rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>

data.enumerated

Suggested values include:

WGS84	(World Geodetic System) a pair of numbers to be interpreted as latitude followed by longitude according to the World Geodetic System. [Default]
MGRS	(Military Grid Reference System) the values supplied are geospatial entity object codes, based on Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates
OSGB36	(ordnance survey great britain) the value supplied is to be interpreted as a British National Grid Reference.
ED50	(European Datum coordinate system) the value supplied is to be interpreted as latitude followed by longitude according to the European Datum coordinate system.

Declaration

<rng:element name="geoDecl">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.declarable.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="datum" defaultValue="WGS84">
   <rng:choice>
    <rng:value>WGS84</rng:value>
    <rng:value>MGRS</rng:value>
    <rng:value>OSGB36</rng:value>
    <rng:value>ED50</rng:value>
    <rng:data type="Name"/>
   </rng:choice>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:ref name="macro.phraseSeq"/>
</rng:element>

element geoDecl
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.declarable.attributes,
   attribute datum { "WGS84" | "MGRS" | "OSGB36" | "ED50" | xsd:Name }?,
   macro.phraseSeq
}

Example

Contained by

model.encodingPart

May contain

analysis: c cl interp interpGrp m phr s span spanGrp w

certainty: certainty respons