## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <rate>

`<rate>` | (rate value) provides a rate value or range of values for a feature.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes and those inherited from singleVal)

`value` | provides a numeric value.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: A real number or integer.
| Default: #REQUIRED

`valueTo` | together with `value` attribute, provides a numeric range of values.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: A real number or integer.
| Default: #IMPLIED
`unit` | provides a unit for a rate feature, one of a finite list that may be specified in a feature declaration.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: A string, e.g. meter.
| Default: #IMPLIED
`per` | provides an interval for a rate feature, one of a finite list that may be specified in a feature declaration.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: A string, e.g. second.
| Default: #REQUIRED
`rel` | indicates the relation of the given value or range to the actual value or range.
| Datatype: (eq|ne|gt|ge|lt|le)

Legal values are:

eq | indicates that the actual value or range is that given.
ne | indicates that the actual value or range is not the value or range given by the element.
lt | indicates that the actual value or range is less than the given value or range.
le | indicates that the actual value or range is less than or equal to the given value or range.
gt | indicates that the actual value or range is greater than the given value or range.
ge | indicates that the actual value or range is greater than or equal to the given value or range.

| Default: eq
`type` | indicates whether value is to be understood as real or integer.
| Datatype: (int|real)

Legal values are:

int | specifies that value is an integer; if noninteger is given as value of value, then only integer part is used.
real | specifies that value is that of a real number.

| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <rate value="65" unit="mile" per="hour" rel="gt"/>

Module Declared in file teifs2; Additional tag set for feature structures: enabled by TEI.fs
Class singleVal
Data Description Empty tag.
May occur within f fvLib vAlt
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT rate %om.RO; EMPTY>
    <!ATTLIST rate
          %a.global;
          value CDATA #REQUIRED
          valueTo CDATA #IMPLIED
          unit CDATA #IMPLIED
          per CDATA #REQUIRED
          rel (eq|ne|gt|ge|lt|le) "eq"
          type (int|real) #IMPLIED>

See further 16.4 Symbolic, Numeric, Measurement, Rate and String Values

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