## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <factuality>

`<factuality>` | describes the extent to which the text may be regarded as imaginative or non-imaginative, that is, as describing a fictional or a non-fictional world.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

`type` | categorizes the factuality of the text.
| Datatype: (fiction|fact|mixed|inapplicable)

Legal values are:

fiction | the text is to be regarded as entirely imaginative
fact | the text is to be regarded as entirely informative or factual
mixed | the text contains a mixture of fact and fiction
inapplicable | the fiction/fact distinction is not regarded as helpful or appropriate to this text

| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <factuality type="fiction"/>

Example

    <factuality type="mixed">contains a mixture of gossip and
     speculation about real people and events</factuality>

Note

For many literary texts, a simple binary opposition between ‘fiction’ and ‘fact’ is naïve in the extreme; this parameter is not intended for purposes of subtle literary analysis, but as a simple means of characterising the claimed fictiveness of a given text. No claim is made that works characterised as ‘fact’ are in any sense ‘true’.

Module Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpus
Data Description Usually empty, unless some further clarification of the type attribute is needed, in which case it may contain running prose
May contain #PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref
May occur within textDesc
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT factuality %om.RO; %phrase.seq;>
    <!ATTLIST factuality
          %a.global;
          type (fiction|fact|mixed|inapplicable) #IMPLIED>

See further 23.2.1 The Text Description

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