TEI element path (path)

<path>

<path> (path) defines any line passing through two or more points within a surface element. [12.1. Digital Facsimiles 12.2.2. Embedded Transcription]

Module

transcr

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
att.typed
- @type
- @subtype
att.written
- @hand
att.coordinated
- points
- @start
- @ulx
- @uly
- @lrx
- @lry

points

identifies a line within the container or bounding box specified by the parent element by means of a series of two or more pairs of numbers, each of which gives the x,y coordinates of a point on the line.

Derived from	att.coordinated
Status	Optional
Datatype	2–∞ occurrences of teidata.point separated by whitespace

Member of

model.linePart

Contained by

transcr: line surface zone

May contain

Empty element

Note

Although the simplest form of a path is a straight line between two points, a line with more than two points may bend at any point. The order of coordinates in points is significant, because the line follows the coordinate sequence.

To specify a closed polygon, use the zone element rather than the path element.

Example

Schematron

Since a path represents a line with distinct start and end points, the last coordinate should not be the same as the first coordinate.

<sch:rule context="tei:path[@points]">
<sch:let name="firstPair"
value="tokenize( normalize-space( @points ), ' ')[1]"/>
<sch:let name="lastPair"
value="tokenize( normalize-space( @points ), ' ')[last()]"/>
<sch:let name="firstX"
value="xs:float( substring-before( $firstPair, ',') )"/>
<sch:let name="firstY"
value="xs:float( substring-after( $firstPair, ',') )"/>
<sch:let name="lastX"
value="xs:float( substring-before( $lastPair, ',') )"/>
<sch:let name="lastY"
value="xs:float( substring-after( $lastPair, ',') )"/>
<sch:report test="$firstX eq $lastX and $firstY eq $lastY">The first and
last elements of this path are the same. To specify a closed polygon, use
the zone element rather than the path element. </sch:report>
</sch:rule>

Content model

<content>
 <empty/>
</content>

Schema Declaration

element path
{
   tei_att.global.attributes,
   tei_att.coordinated.attribute.start,
   tei_att.coordinated.attribute.ulx,
   tei_att.coordinated.attribute.uly,
   tei_att.coordinated.attribute.lrx,
   tei_att.coordinated.attribute.lry,
   tei_att.typed.attributes,
   tei_att.written.attributes,
   attribute points { list { teidata.point, teidata.point, teidata.point* } }?,
   empty
}