TEI: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

P5 Version 4.10.2. Last updated on 4th September 2025, revision bcfa98f42

<extent>

<extent> (extent) describes the approximate size of a text stored on some carrier medium or of some other object, digital or non-digital, specified in any convenient units. [2.2.3 Type and Extent of File 2.2 The File Description 3.12.2.4 Imprint, Size of a Document, and Reprint Information 11.7.1 Object Description]

Module header — The TEI Header

Attributes

att.global
- @xml:id
- @n
- @xml:lang
- @xml:base
- @xml:space
- att.global.analytic
  - @ana
- att.global.change
  - @change
- att.global.facs
  - @facs
- att.global.linking
  - @corresp
  - @synch
  - @sameAs
  - @copyOf
  - @next
  - @prev
  - @exclude
  - @select
- att.global.rendition
  - @rend
  - @style
  - @rendition
- att.global.responsibility
  - @cert
  - @resp
- att.global.source
  - @source

Member of

Contained by

core: bibl monogr

header: biblFull fileDesc

msdescription: supportDesc

May contain

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

certainty: certainty precision respons

core: abbr add address binaryObject cb choice cit corr date del distinct ellipsis email emph expan foreign gap gb gloss graphic hi index lb measure measureGrp media mentioned milestone name note noteGrp num orig pb ptr q quote ref reg rs ruby said sic soCalled term time title unclear unit

dictionaries: lang oRef pRef

figures: figure formula notatedMusic

gaiji: g

header: idno

iso-fs: fLib fs fvLib

linking: alt altGrp anchor join joinGrp link linkGrp seg timeline

msdescription: catchwords depth dim dimensions height heraldry locus locusGrp material objectType origDate origPlace secFol signatures stamp watermark width

namesdates: addName affiliation bloc climate country district eventName forename genName geo geogFeat geogName location nameLink objectName offset orgName persName persPronouns placeName population region roleName settlement state surname terrain trait

spoken: incident kinesic pause shift vocal writing

tagdocs: att code gi ident listRef specDesc specList tag val

textcrit: app witDetail

textstructure: floatingText

transcr: addSpan am damage damageSpan delSpan ex fw handShift listTranspose metamark mod redo restore retrace secl space subst substJoin supplied surplus undo

verse: caesura rhyme

character data

Example

<extent>3200 sentences</extent>
<extent>between 10 and 20 Mb</extent>
<extent>ten 3.5 inch high density diskettes</extent>

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Example

The measure element may be used to supply normalized or machine tractable versions of the size or sizes concerned.

<extent>
<measure unit="MiB" quantity="4.2">About four megabytes</measure>
<measure unit="pages" quantity="245">245 pages of source
material</measure>
</extent>

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Content model

<content>
 <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq"/>
</content>

Schema Declaration

<rng:element name="extent">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="macro.phraseSeq"/>
</rng:element>

element extent
{
 att.global.attributes,
 att.global.analytic.attributes,
 att.global.change.attributes,
 att.global.facs.attributes,
 att.global.linking.attributes,
 att.global.rendition.attributes,
 att.global.responsibility.attributes,
 att.global.source.attributes,
 macro.phraseSeq
}

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TEI Guidelines P5 Version 4.10.2. Last updated on 4th September 2025, revision bcfa98f42. This page generated on 2025年09月04日T16:27:03Z.