<channel>

<channel> (primary channel) describes the medium or channel by which a text is delivered or experienced. For a written text, this might be print, manuscript, email, etc.; for a spoken one, radio, telephone, face-to-face, etc. [15.2.1 The Text Description]
Module corpus — Language Corpora
Attributes
mode⚓︎ specifies the mode of this channel with respect to speech and writing.
Status Optional
Datatype teidata.enumerated
Legal values are:
s
(spoken)
w
(written)
sw
(spoken to be written) e.g. dictation
ws
(written to be spoken) e.g. a script
m
(mixed)
x
(unknown or inapplicable) [Default]
Member of
model.textDescPart
Contained by
corpus: textDesc
May contain
analysis: interp interpGrp span spanGrp
certainty: certainty precision respons
core: abbr address cb choice date distinct ellipsis email emph expan foreign gap gb gloss hi index lb measure measureGrp mentioned milestone name note noteGrp num pb ptr q ref rs soCalled term time title unit
dictionaries: lang
figures: figure notatedMusic
header: idno
iso-fs: fLib fs fvLib
linking: alt altGrp anchor join joinGrp link linkGrp timeline
msdescription: catchwords depth dim dimensions height heraldry locus locusGrp material objectType origDate origPlace secFol signatures stamp watermark width
namesdates: addName affiliation bloc climate country district eventName forename genName geo geogFeat geogName location nameLink objectName offset orgName persName persPronouns placeName population region roleName settlement state surname terrain trait
spoken: incident kinesic pause shift vocal writing
tagdocs: att code gi ident listRef tag val
textcrit: app witDetail
transcr: addSpan am damageSpan delSpan ex fw listTranspose metamark space subst substJoin
character data
Example
<channel mode="s">face-to-face conversation</channel>
Content model 
<content>
 <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
</content>
Schema Declaration 
<rng:element name="channel">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="mode" a:defaultValue="x">
   <rng:choice>
    <rng:value>s</rng:value>
    <rng:value>w</rng:value>
    <rng:value>sw</rng:value>
    <rng:value>ws</rng:value>
    <rng:value>m</rng:value>
    <rng:value>x</rng:value>
   </rng:choice>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:ref name="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
</rng:element>
element channel
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.global.rendition.attributes,
   att.global.linking.attributes,
   att.global.analytic.attributes,
   att.global.facs.attributes,
   att.global.change.attributes,
   att.global.responsibility.attributes,
   att.global.source.attributes,
   attribute mode { "s" | "w" | "sw" | "ws" | "m" | "x" }?,
   macro.phraseSeq.limited
}