<person>

<person> (person) provides information about an identifiable individual, for example a participant in a language interaction, or a person referred to in a historical source. [13.3.2. The Person Element 15.2.2. The Participant Description]

Module

namesdates

Attributes

Attributes att.global.linking (corresp, copyOf) att.global (xml:id, n, xml:lang) (lim.att.global.fragmentable (part)) (att.global.rendition (rendition)) (att.global.source (source)) att.editLike (evidence)

role

specifies a primary role or classification for the person.

Status	Optional
Datatype	1–∞ occurrences of teidata.enumerated separated by whitespace
Note	Values for this attribute may be locally defined by a project, using arbitrary keywords such as artist, employer, author, relative, or servant, each of which should be associated with a definition. Such local definitions will typically be provided by a valList element in the project schema specification.

gender

specifies the gender of the person.

Status	Optional
Datatype	1–∞ occurrences of teidata.gender separated by whitespace
Note	Values for this attribute may be defined locally by a project, or they may refer to an external standard.

Contained by

namesdates: listPerson

May contain

core: note

figures: figure

linking: linkGrp

namesdates: affiliation birth death faith langKnowledge nationality occupation persName residence sex

Note

May contain either a prose description organized as paragraphs, or a sequence of more specific demographic elements drawn from the model.personPart class.

Examples

<person sex="F" age="adult">
<p>Female respondent, well-educated, born in Shropshire UK, 12 Jan 1950, of unknown occupation. Speaks French fluently. Socio-Economic
status B2.</p>
</person>

<person sex="intersex" role="god" age="immortal">
<persName>Hermaphroditos</persName>
<persName xml:lang="grc">Ἑρμαφρόδιτος</persName>
</person>

<person xml:id="Ovi01" sex="M" role="poet">
   <persName xml:lang="en">Ovid</persName>
   <persName xml:lang="la">Publius Ovidius Naso</persName>
   <birth when="-0044-03-20"> 20 March 43 BC <placeName>
         <settlement type="city">Sulmona</settlement>
         <country key="IT">Italy</country>
      </placeName>
   </birth>
   <death notBefore="0017" notAfter="0018">17 or 18 AD <placeName>
         <settlement type="city">Tomis (Constanta)</settlement>
         <country key="RO">Romania</country>
      </placeName>
   </death>
</person>

The following exemplifies an adaptation of the vCard standard to indicate an unknown gender for a fictional character.

<person xml:id="ariel" gender="U">
<persName>Ariel</persName>
<note>Character in <title level="m">The Tempest</title>.</note>
</person>

Schematron

Various constraints for the different models for contributors and non-contributors.

<sch:rule context="/tei:person[not(@role='contributor')]">
   <sch:assert test="matches(@xml:id,concat('^', $persIdPattern, '$'))">ERROR: All people must have an @xml:id of 5 uppercase letters and a number (e.g. FORBR1).</sch:assert>
   <sch:assert test="tei:langKnowledge">ERROR: People must contain a langKnowledge element.</sch:assert>
</sch:rule>
<sch:rule context="/tei:person[@role='contributor']">
   <sch:assert test="matches(@xml:id, '^[A-Z]{2,3}\d+$')">ERROR: All contributors must have an @xml:id of 2-3 uppercase letters and a number (e.g. LD1).</sch:assert>
   <sch:assert test="tei:persName and tei:note">ERROR: Contributors should only contain persName and note.</sch:assert>
</sch:rule>

Source

Github

<elementSpec rend="change" module="namesdates" ident="person">
   <gloss>person</gloss>
   <desc>provides information about an identifiable individual, for example a participant in a language interaction, or a person referred to in a
    historical source.</desc>
   <classes>
      <memberOf key="att.global.linking"/>
      <memberOf key="att.global"/>
      <memberOf key="att.editLike"/>
   </classes>
   <content>
      <macroRef key="lim.personMacro"/>
      <elementRef key="linkGrp" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
   </content>
   <attList>
      <attDef ident="role" usage="opt">
         <desc>specifies a primary role or classification for the person.</desc>
         <datatype maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <dataRef key="teidata.enumerated"/>
         </datatype>
      </attDef>
      <attDef ident="sex" mode="delete"/>
      <attDef ident="gender" usage="opt">
         <desc>specifies the gender of the person.</desc>
         <datatype minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <dataRef key="teidata.gender"/>
         </datatype>
      </attDef>
      <attDef ident="age" mode="delete"/>
   </attList>
</elementSpec>