Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

names


names groups those elements which refer to named persons, places, organizations etc.
Member of classes (none)  
Members bloc country geog geogName measure name persName placeName pubPlace region rs settlement
Declaration

<!ENTITY % a.names '
      key CDATA #IMPLIED
      reg CDATA #IMPLIED'> 
Attributes (In addition to global attributes)
key provides an alternative identifier for the object being named, such as a database record key.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: any string
Default: #IMPLIED
Example:
<name type="place">Montaillou</name>
is not a large parish.
At the time of the events which led to 
<name key="BXII" type="person">Fournier's</name> investigations,
the local population consisted of between 200 and
250 inhabitants.
Note

The value may be a unique identifier from a database, or simply a more explicit name for the referent. Its purpose is only to record an identification; if the analysis leading to the identification is to be recorded as well, the analytic tags described in chapter 16 Feature Structures should be used in addition or instead.

reg (regularization) gives a normalized or regularized form of the name used.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: Any string of characters.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example:
At the time of the events which led to
<name reg="Benedict XII, Pope of Avignon (Jacques Fournier)" 
type="person">Fournier's</name> investigations, 
the local population consisted of between 200 and
250 inhabitants.
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.

Module Declared in file dummy; Declared in file teiclas2.ent; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
See further 6.4.1 Referring Strings

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