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The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<person>


<person> describes a single participant in a language interaction.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes)
role specifies the role of this participant in the group.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: a set of keywords to be defined
Default: #IMPLIED
sex specifies the sex of the participant.
Datatype: ( m | f | u )
Legal values are:
m male
f female
u unknown or inapplicable
Default: #IMPLIED
age specifies the age group to which the participant belongs.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: suggested values are to be supplied
Default: #IMPLIED
Example
<person id="p1" sex="f" age="42">
   <p>Female informant, well-educated, born in Shropshire
UK, 12 Jan 1950, of unknown occupation.
Speaks French fluently. Socio-Economic status B2.</p>
</person>
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 person %om.RO; (p+ | (%m.demographic;)* )> 
<!ATTLIST person  
      %a.global;
      role CDATA #IMPLIED
      sex ( m | f | u ) #IMPLIED
      age CDATA #IMPLIED>
See further 23.2.2 The Participants Description

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