Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies

Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie

Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies

a research centre of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature

<sourceDesc>


<sourceDesc> Supplies a bibliographic description of the letter from which an electronic text was derived or generated. Specifically for the DALF DTD, it has been extended with an element that groups all letter-specific meta-information.
Attributes
No other than global attributes and those inherited from declarable
Example
<sourceDesc>
   <letDesc>
      <letIdentifier>
         <country>Belgium</country>
         <settlement>Antwerp</settlement>
         <repository>AMVC</repository>
         <idno>S 154/1235</idno>
      </letIdentifier>
      <letHeading>
         <author>Stijn Streuvels</author>
         <addressee>Lannoo</addressee>
         <placeLet>Ingooigem</placeLet>
         <dateLet>1943-04-24</dateLet>   
      </letHeading>
      <physDesc>
         <type>letter</type>
         <support>
            <p>single page with pre-printed letterhead, writing on both sides</p>
         </support>
         <extent>
            <dimensions>
               <height units="mm">214</height>
               <width units="mm">276</width>
            </dimensions>
         </extent>
      </physDesc>
      <envOcc occ="yes" />
      <letContents>
         <p>Joris Lannoo asks Streuvels what to do ...</p>
      </letContents>
   </letDesc>
</sourceDesc>
Note

This element is taken over literally from the TEI scheme (see http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/ref-SOUSTMT.html), and extended with the <letDesc> DALF element.

Class declarable[TEI]
Content Must contain one letter description.
Parents biblFull fileDesc
Children biblStruct letDesc note
Declaration
<!ELEMENT sourceDesc %om.RR;
          (biblStruct?, letDesc, note*)>
<!ATTLIST sourceDesc
          %a.global;
          %a.declarable;>
See further 4. The DALF header

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