<join>

<join> (join) identifies a possibly fragmented segment of text, by pointing at the possibly discontiguous elements which compose it. [16.7. Aggregation]
Modulelinking
Attributes
resultspecifies the name of an element which this aggregation may be understood to represent.
Status Optional
Datatype teidata.name
scopeindicates whether the targets to be joined include the entire element indicated (the entire subtree including its root), or just the children of the target (the branches of the subtree).
Status Recommended
Datatype teidata.enumerated
Legal values are:
root
the rooted subtrees indicated by the target attribute are joined, each subtree become a child of the virtual element created by the join [Default]
branches
the children of the subtrees indicated by the target attribute become the children of the virtual element (i.e. the roots of the subtrees are discarded)
Member of
model.global.meta
Contained by
analysis: m phr s w
core: abbr add addrLine address author bibl biblScope cit citedRange corr date del distinct editor email emph expan foreign gloss head headItem headLabel hi imprint item l label lg list measure mentioned name note num orig p pubPlace publisher q quote rb ref reg resp rs rt said series sic soCalled sp speaker stage street term textLang time title unit
dictionaries: form gen lang
figures: cell figure table
header: authority change classCode distributor edition extent funder geoDecl handNote language licence principal scriptNote sponsor
linking: ab seg standOff
msdescription: accMat acquisition additions catchwords collation collection colophon condition custEvent decoNote explicit filiation finalRubric foliation heraldry incipit institution layout material msItem musicNotation objectType origDate origPlace origin provenance repository rubric secFol signatures source stamp summary support surrogates typeNote watermark
namesdates: addName birth bloc country death district eventName floruit forename genName gender geogFeat geogName objectName offset orgName persName persPronouns person personGrp persona placeName region roleName settlement surname
textcrit: lem rdg wit
textstructure: back body dateline div docAuthor docDate docEdition docImprint docTitle epigraph floatingText front group text
transcr: damage fw line metamark mod retrace secl sourceDoc supplied surface surfaceGrp surplus zone
May contain
certainty: certainty precision
core: desc
Example

The following example is discussed in section [ID SAAG in TEI Guidelines]:

<sp>
 <speaker>Hughie</speaker>
 <p>How does it go? <q>
   <l xml:id="frog_x1">da-da-da</l>
   <l xml:id="frog_l2">gets a new frog</l>
   <l>...</l>
  </q>
 </p>
</sp>
<sp>
 <speaker>Louie</speaker>
 <p>
  <q>
   <l xml:id="frog_l1">When the old pond</l>
   <l>...</l>
  </q>
 </p>
</sp>
<sp>
 <speaker>Dewey</speaker>
 <p>
  <q>... <l xml:id="frog_l3">It's a new pond.</l>
  </q>
 </p>
 <join target="#frog_l1 #frog_l2 #frog_l3"
  result="lg" scope="root"/>
</sp>

The join element here identifies a linegroup (lg) comprising the three lines indicated by the target attribute. The value root for the scope attribute indicates that the resulting virtual element contains the three l elements linked to at #frog_l1 #frog_l2 #frog_l3, rather than their character data content.

Example

In this example, the attribute scope is specified with the value of branches to indicate that the virtual list being constructed is to be made by taking the lists indicated by the target attribute of the join element, discarding the list tags which enclose them, and combining the items contained within the lists into a single virtual list:

<p>Southern dialect (my own variety, at least) has only <list xml:id="LP1">
  <item>
   <s>I done gone</s>
  </item>
  <item>
   <s>I done went</s>
  </item>
 </list> whereas Negro Non-Standard basilect has both these and <list xml:id="LP2">
  <item>
   <s>I done go</s>
  </item>
 </list>.</p>
<p>White Southern dialect also has <list xml:id="LP3">
  <item>
   <s>I've done gone</s>
  </item>
  <item>
   <s>I've done went</s>
  </item>
 </list> which, when they occur in Negro dialect, should probably be considered as borrowings from other varieties of English.</p>
<join result="list" xml:id="LST1"
 target="#LP1 #LP2 #LP3" scope="branches">
 <desc>Sample sentences in Southern speech</desc>
</join>
Schematron

<sch:assert test="contains(@target,' ')">You must supply at least two values for @target on <sch:name/>
</sch:assert>
Content model
<content>
 <alternate minOccurs="0"
  maxOccurs="unbounded">
  <classRef key="model.descLike"/>
  <classRef key="model.certLike"/>
 </alternate>
</content>
Schema Declaration
element join
{
   tei_att.global.attributes,
   tei_att.pointing.attributes,
   tei_att.typed.attributes,
   attribute result { teidata.name }?,
   attribute scope { "root" | "branches" }?,
   ( tei_model.descLike | tei_model.certLike )*
}