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<relation>

<relation> (relationship) describes any kind of relationship or linkage amongst a specified group of participants.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes)
type categorizes the relationship in some respect, e.g. as social, personal or other.
Datatype: CDATA
Suggested values include:
social relationship concerned with social roles
personal relationship concerned with personal roles, e.g. kinship, marriage, etc.
other other kinds of relationship
Default: personal
desc briefly describes the relationship.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: an open list of application-dependent keywords
Default: #IMPLIED
active identifies the ‘active’participants in a non-mutual relationship, or all the participants in a mutual one.
Datatype: IDREFS
Values: a list of identifier values for participant or participant groups
Default: #IMPLIED
passive identifies the ‘passive’ participants in a non-mutual relationship.
Datatype: IDREFS
Values: a list of identifier values for participant or participant groups
Default: #IMPLIED
mutual indicates whether the relationship holds equally amongst all the participants.
Datatype: (Y | N)
Legal values are:
Y the relationship is mutual
N the relationship is directed
Default: Y
Example 
<relation type="social" desc="supervisor" active="p1" passive="p2 p3 p4" mutual="N"/>
Example 
<relation type="personal" desc="friends" active="p2 p3 p4" mutual="Y"/>
Module Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpus
Data Description Empty
May occur within particLinks
Declaration 
<!ELEMENT relation %om.RO; EMPTY> 
<!ATTLIST relation  
      %a.global;
      type CDATA "personal"
      desc CDATA #IMPLIED
      active IDREFS #IMPLIED
      passive IDREFS #IMPLIED
      mutual (Y | N) "Y">
See further 23.2.2 The Participants Description

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