| <constitution> | describes the internal composition of a text or text sample,
for example
as fragmentary, complete, etc. | 
| Attributes: | | type | specifies how the text was constituted. |  |  | Datatype: (single | composite | frags | unknown) |  |  | Legal values: | | single | a single complete text |  | composite | a text made by combining several smaller
             items, each individually complete |  | frags | a text made by combining several smaller, not
             necessarily complete, items |  | unknown | composition unknown or unspecified | 
 |  |  | Default: single | 
 | 
| Example |     <constitution type=frags>Prologues only. | 
| Note | The function of this element seems to overlap with both
the ORG attribute on DIVs and the samplingDecl in the encodingDesc. | 
| Tagset | auxiliary tag set for corpora and 
collections | 
| Class |  | 
| Filename | teicorp2 | 
| Content: | contains any sequence of phrase level data | 
| Parents | textDesc | 
| Children | #PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage 
date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula fw 
geogName gi gloss handShift hi lang link m measure mentioned name num 
oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr ref reg 
restore rs s seg sic soCalled space supplied tag term time timeRange 
timeStruct title unclear val w xptr xref | 
| Declaration | <!ELEMENT constitution  - O  (%phrase.seq)                      >
<!ATTLIST constitution       %a.global
          type               (single | composite | frags | 
                             unknown)            single         > | 
| See | 23.2.1 |