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<person>

person

provides information about an identifiable individual, for example a participant in a language interaction, or a person referred to in a historical source.

Module namesdatesNDPERSECCAHPA

Attributes

Global and inherited 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.datable @period
att.datable.custom @when-custom@notBefore-custom@notAfter-custom@from-custom@to-custom@datingPoint@datingMethod
att.datable.iso @when-iso@notBefore-iso@notAfter-iso@from-iso@to-iso
att.datable.w3c @when@notBefore@notAfter@from@to
att.editLike @evidence@instant
att.sortable @sortKey
@rolespecifies a primary role or classification for the person.
Status
Optional
Datatype
1–∞ occurrences of teidata.enumerated separated by whitespace
@sexspecifies the sex of the person.
Status
Optional
Datatype
1–∞ occurrences of teidata.sex separated by whitespace
@genderspecifies the gender of the person.
Status
Optional
Datatype
1–∞ occurrences of teidata.gender separated by whitespace
@agespecifies an age group for the person.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated

Classes and content

Member of
model.personLike
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

transcr

Contained by

corpus

namesdates

Note

May contain either a prose description organized as paragraphs, or a sequence of more specific demographic elements drawn from the model.personPart class.

Examples

<person sex="F" age="adult">
  <p>Female respondent, well-educated, born in Shropshire UK, 12 Jan 1950, of unknown occupation. Speaks French fluently. Socio-Economic
status B2.</p>
</person>

<person sex="intersex" role="god" age="immortal">
  <persName>Hermaphroditos</persName>
  <persName xml:lang="grc">Ἑρμαφρόδιτος</persName>
</person>

<person xml:id="Ovi01" sex="M" role="poet">
  <persName xml:lang="en">Ovid</persName>
  <persName xml:lang="la">Publius Ovidius Naso</persName>
  <birth when="-0044-03-20"> 20 March 43 BC <placeName>
      <settlement type="city">Sulmona</settlement>
      <country key="IT">Italy</country>
    </placeName>
  </birth>
  <death notBefore="0017" notAfter="0018">17 or 18 AD <placeName>
      <settlement type="city">Tomis (Constanta)</settlement>
      <country key="RO">Romania</country>
    </placeName>
  </death>
</person>

The following exemplifies an adaptation of the vCard standard to indicate an unknown gender for a fictional character.

<person xml:id="ariel" gender="U">
  <persName>Ariel</persName>
  <note>Character in <title level="m">The Tempest</title>.</note>
</person>

This example demonstrates the use of a ref element to provide more information about a person. The private URI scheme lacy: is presumably declared in the teiHeader with a prefixDef.

<person age="G2" role="author" xml:id="W0212" sex="F">
  <birth when="1787"/>
  <death when="1855"/>
  <persName type="main">Mitford, Mary Russell (1787–1855)</persName>
  <persName resp="#Nicoll">MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL</persName>
  <listBibl type="lacyTitles">
    <desc>Lacy's Acting Editions</desc>
    <bibl>
      <ref target="lacy:L1280">Foscari</ref>
    </bibl>
    <bibl>
      <ref target="lacy:L1337">Rienzi</ref>
    </bibl>
  </listBibl>
  <listRef type="seeAlso">
    <ref target="https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1386">ATCL</ref>
    <ref target="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18859">ODNB</ref>
    <ref target="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Russell_Mitford">Wikipedia</ref>
    <ref target="https://digitalmitford.org">Digital Mitford</ref>
  </listRef>
</person>

Content model

<content>
    <alternate>
        <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
        <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
          <classRef key="model.personPart"/>
          <classRef key="model.global"/>
          <classRef key="model.ptrLike"/>
        </alternate>
    </alternate>
  </content>