TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`temporalExpr` | (temporal expression) groups component elements of temporal expressions involving dates and time.
Attributes: |
`value` | supplies the value of a date or time in a standard form.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string representing a temporal expression 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
Note | The standard form used should be described in the `<stdVals>` element in the TEI header. Standard forms may be defined from scratch, or borrowed from existing practice.
`type` | provides any application-, linguistic- or culture-specific classication for the component.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string of characters.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
    <dateStruct value='14-05-1993'>
     <day type=nominal>Friday</day>,
     <day type=numeric>14</day>
     <month type=nominal>May</month>
     <year type=nominal value='1993'>
       in the year of our Lord One Thousand
       Nine Hundred and Ninety Three
     </year>
    </dateStruct>
`reg` | (regularization) gives a normalized or regularized form of the temporal expression.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string of characters.
| Default: #IMPLIED
Note | In providing a `regularized' form, no claim is made that the form in the source text is incorrect; the regularized form is simply that chosen as the main form for purposes of unifying variant forms under a single heading.
    <dateStruct value='09-06-1807'>
      <month>June</month> <day reg='9'>9th</day>
    </dateStruct>:
    The period is approaching which will terminate my
    present copartnership. On the
      <dateStruct value='01-01-1808'>
         <day reg='1'>1st</day>
         <month reg='January'>Jany.</month>
       </dateStruct>
    next, it expires by its own limitation.

    At <time><event reg='evening'>sunset</event></time> we walked
    walked to the beach.
`full` | indicates whether the date element is given in full, as an abbreviation or simply as an initial
| Datatype: (yes | abb | init)
| Legal values: |
`yes` | the name component is spelled out in full.
`abb` | the name component is given in an abbreviated form.
`init` | the name component is indicated only by one initial.
| Default: yes

Note
Tagset additional tag set for names and dates
Class
Filename `teind2.ent`
Parents dateStruct timeStruct
Members dateStruct day distance hour minute month occasion offset second timeStruct week year
Declaration `<!ENTITY % a.temporalExpr ' %a.global value CDATA #IMPLIED type CDATA #IMPLIED reg CDATA #IMPLIED full (yes | abb | init) yes' >`
See 20.4

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