| <birth> | (Birth details) contains information about a person's birth, such as its date
and place. |
| Attributes: | | date | specifies the date of birth in an ISO standard form (yyyy-mm-dd). | | Datatype: %ISO-date | | Values: a date in ISO standard form (yyyy-mm-dd). | | Default: #IMPLIED |
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| Example |
<birth>Before 1920, Midlands region.</birth>
|
| Example |
<birth date=1960-12-10>In a small cottage near
< name type=place>Aix-la-Chapelle</name>,
early in the morning of <date>10 Dec 1960</date>
</birth>
|
| Note | Dates and place names, if included in the content of this
element, should in general be tagged using the <date> and
<namee> elements respectively. If the additional tagset for
Names and Dates is in use, the more specific elements defined by that
tagset may be used as an alternative.
|
| Tagset | auxiliary tag set for corpora and
collections |
| Class | demographic |
| Filename | teicorp2 |
| Content: | |
| Parents | person personGrp |
| 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 birth - - (%phrase.seq) >
<!ATTLIST birth %a.global
date %ISO-date #IMPLIED > |
| See | 23.2.2 |