TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<date>` | contains a date in any format.
Attributes: |
`calendar` | indicates the system or calendar to which the date belongs.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Recommended values include: Gregorian, Julian, Roman, Mosaic, Revolutionary, Islamic.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
    He was born on <date calendar=Gregorian>Feb. 22,
    1732</date> (<date calendar=Julian
    value='1732-2-22'>Feb. 11, 1731/32, O.S.</date>).
`value` | gives the value of the date in some standard form, usually yyyy-mm-dd.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string representing a date in standard format; recommended form is ``yyyy-mm-dd'', as defined by ISO 8601: 1988, Data elements and interchange formats --- Information interchange --- Representation of dates and times.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
    This list begins in the year 1632, more precisely
    on Trinity Sunday, i.e. the Sunday after Pentecost,
    in that year the <date calendar=Julian value=1632-6-6>
    27th of May (old style)</date>.
Note | For simple dates, the value should give the Gregorian date in the form (yyyy-mm-dd) specified by ISO 8601. More complicated dates or special applications may require another calendar or another form; these should be documented in the `<stdVals>` element in the TEI Header.
`certainty` | indicates the degree of precision to be attributed to the date.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any appropriate value, e.g. ca., approx, after, before.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <date value='1980-02' certainty=approx>early February 1980</date>

Example

    Given on the <date value='1977-06-12'>Twelfth Day of June
    in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and
    Seventy-seven of the Republic the Two Hundredth and first
    and of the University the Eighty-Sixth.</date>

Example

    <date value='1990-09'>September 1990</date>

Note
Tagset additional tag set for common core features
Class data, date, terminologyInclusions [and indirectly also:] phrase
Filename `teicore2`
Content: May contain character data and phrase-level elements.
Parents ab abbr activity actor add addName addrLine admin affiliation author authority bibl biblScope birth bloc byline camera caption case castItem catDesc cell change channel cl classCode closer colloc constitution corr country creation damage dataDesc date dateRange dateline def del derivation desc descrip distance distinct distributor docAuthor docDate docEdition docImprint domain edition editor education emph equiv etym expan extent fDescr factuality figDesc firstLang foreign forename form fsDescr funder fw gen genName gloss gram gramGrp head headItem headLabel hi hyph imprimatur imprint interaction item itype l label lang langKnown language lbl lem locale measure meeting mentioned mood name nameLink note num number occasion occupation opener orgDivn orgName orgTitle orgType orig orth otherForm p per persName phr placeName pos preparedness principal pron pubPlace publicationStmt publisher purpose q quote rdg re recording ref reg region rendition residence resp restore role roleDesc roleName rs s salute seg sense set setting settlement sic signed soCalled socecStatus sound speaker sponsor stage street stress subc supplied surname syll symbol tagUsage tech term termEntry time timeRange title titlePart tns tr trailer trans u unclear usg valDesc view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref
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 date          - -  (%phrase.seq;)                     >
    <!ATTLIST date               %a.global
              calendar           CDATA               #IMPLIED
              value              CDATA               #IMPLIED
              certainty          CDATA               #IMPLIED       >

See 6.4.4 ; 5.2.4 ; 5.5 ; 6.10.2.3 ; 13.2 ; 23.2.3 ; 20.4

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