Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<personGrp>


<personGrp> (personal group) describes a group of individuals treated as a single person for analytic purposes.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes)
role specifies the role of this group of participants in the interaction.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: a set of keywords to be defined
Default: #IMPLIED
sex specifies the sex of the participant group.
Datatype: ( m | f | u | x )
Legal values are:
m male
f female
u unknown
x mixed
Default: #IMPLIED
age specifies the age group of the participants.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: suggested values are to be supplied
Default: #IMPLIED
size specifies the size or approximate size of the group.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: may contain a number and an indication of accuracy, e.g. ‘approx 200’
Default: #IMPLIED
Example
<personGrp id="pg1" role="audience" sex="x" size="approx 50"/>
Note

The global id attribute should be used to identify each speaking participant in a spoken text if the who attribute is specified on individual utterances.

Module Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpus
Data Description May contain a prose description organized as paragraphs, or any sequence of demographic elements in any combination.
May contain affiliation birth education firstLang langKnown occupation p persName residence socecStatus
May occur within particDesc
Declaration
<!ELEMENT personGrp %om.RO; (p+ | (%m.demographic;)* )> 
<!ATTLIST personGrp  
      %a.global;
      role CDATA #IMPLIED
      sex ( m | f | u | x ) #IMPLIED
      age CDATA #IMPLIED
      size CDATA #IMPLIED>
See further 23.2.2 The Participants Description

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