<persName>

(personal name) – Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.
Attributes
@enddate, @isodate, @label, @notafter, @notbefore, @nymref, @role, @startdate, @type, @xml:id, @xml:lang
@enddate(optional)Contains the end point of a date range in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
<persName>att.nameatt.datable@enddate
@isodate(optional)Provides the value of a textual date in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
<persName>att.nameatt.datable@isodate
@label(optional)Captures text to be used to generate a label for the element to which it’s attached, a "tool tip" or prefatory text, for example. Should not be used to record document content. Value is plain text.
<persName>att.commonatt.labelled@label
@notafter(optional)Contains an upper boundary for an uncertain date in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
<persName>att.nameatt.datable@notafter
@notbefore(optional)Contains a lower boundary, in standard ISO form, for an uncertain date. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
<persName>att.nameatt.datable@notbefore
@nymref(optional)Used to record a pointer to the regularized form of the name elsewhere in the document. Value conforms to data.URI.
<persName>att.name@nymref
@role(optional)Used to specify further information about the entity referenced by this name, for example, the occupation of a person or the status of a place. One or more values from data.RELATORS, separated by spaces.
<persName>att.name@role
@startdate(optional)Contains the starting point of a date range in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
<persName>att.nameatt.datable@startdate
@type(optional)Designation which characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology that employs single-token labels. One or more values of datatype NMTOKEN, separated by spaces.
<persName>att.commonatt.typed@type
@xml:id(optional)Regularizes the naming of an element and thus facilitates building links between it and other resources. Each id attribute within a document must have a unique value. Value is a valid xml:id.
<persName>att.commonatt.id@xml:id
@xml:lang(optional)Identifies the language of the element's content. The values for this attribute are language 'tags' as defined in BCP 47. All language tags that make use of private use sub-tags must be documented in a corresponding language element in the MEI header whose id attribute is the same as the language tag's value. Value of datatype language.
<persName>att.lang@xml:lang
(MEI.shared) Attributes common to many elements.
(MEI.shared) Attributes that uniquely identify an element.
@xml:id(optional)Regularizes the naming of an element and thus facilitates building links between it and other resources. Each id attribute within a document must have a unique value. Value is a valid xml:id.
(MEI.shared)
@label(optional)Captures text to be used to generate a label for the element to which it’s attached, a "tool tip" or prefatory text, for example. Should not be used to record document content. Value is plain text.
(MEI.shared) Attributes which can be used to classify features.
@type(optional)Designation which characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology that employs single-token labels. One or more values of datatype NMTOKEN, separated by spaces.
(MEI.shared) Language attributes common to text elements.
@xml:lang(optional)Identifies the language of the element's content. The values for this attribute are language 'tags' as defined in BCP 47. All language tags that make use of private use sub-tags must be documented in a corresponding language element in the MEI header whose id attribute is the same as the language tag's value. Value of datatype language.
(MEI.shared) Attributes shared by names.
@nymref(optional)Used to record a pointer to the regularized form of the name elsewhere in the document. Value conforms to data.URI.
@role(optional)Used to specify further information about the entity referenced by this name, for example, the occupation of a person or the status of a place. One or more values from data.RELATORS, separated by spaces.
(MEI.shared) Attributes common to dates.
@enddate(optional)Contains the end point of a date range in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@isodate(optional)Provides the value of a textual date in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@notafter(optional)Contains an upper boundary for an uncertain date in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@notbefore(optional)Contains a lower boundary, in standard ISO form, for an uncertain date. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@startdate(optional)Contains the starting point of a date range in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@enddate(optional)Contains the end point of a date range in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@isodate(optional)Provides the value of a textual date in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@label(optional)Captures text to be used to generate a label for the element to which it’s attached, a "tool tip" or prefatory text, for example. Should not be used to record document content. Value is plain text.
@notafter(optional)Contains an upper boundary for an uncertain date in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@notbefore(optional)Contains a lower boundary, in standard ISO form, for an uncertain date. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@nymref(optional)Used to record a pointer to the regularized form of the name elsewhere in the document. Value conforms to data.URI.
@role(optional)Used to specify further information about the entity referenced by this name, for example, the occupation of a person or the status of a place. One or more values from data.RELATORS, separated by spaces.
@startdate(optional)Contains the starting point of a date range in standard ISO form. Value conforms to data.ISODATE.
@type(optional)Designation which characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology that employs single-token labels. One or more values of datatype NMTOKEN, separated by spaces.
@xml:id(optional)Regularizes the naming of an element and thus facilitates building links between it and other resources. Each id attribute within a document must have a unique value. Value is a valid xml:id.
@xml:lang(optional)Identifies the language of the element's content. The values for this attribute are language 'tags' as defined in BCP 47. All language tags that make use of private use sub-tags must be documented in a corresponding language element in the MEI header whose id attribute is the same as the language tag's value. Value of datatype language.
Member of
model.nameLike.agentGroups elements which contain names of individuals or corporate bodies.
Contained By
(MEI.namesdates) Groups elements which contain names of individuals or corporate bodies.
<respStmt>Names one or more individuals, groups, or in rare cases, mechanical processes, responsible for creation, realization, production, funding, or distribution of the intellectual or artistic content.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that contain names.
(MEI.shared) Groups textual elements that occur at the level of individual words or phrases. This class is equivalent to the model.textPhraseLike class without the pb element.
<dir>An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols, typically above, below, or between staves, but not on the staff — that is not encoded elsewhere in more specific elements, like <tempo>, <dynam> or <repeatMark>.
<dynam>Indication of the volume of a note, phrase, or section of music.
<f>Single element of a figured bass indication.
<fing>An individual finger in a fingering indication.
<gliss>A continuous or sliding movement from one pitch to another, usually indicated by a straight or wavy line.
<harm>An indication of harmony, e.g., chord names, tablature grids, harmonic analysis, figured bass.
<label>A container for document text that identifies the feature to which it is attached. For a "tool tip" or other generated label, use the @label attribute.
<labelAbbr>A label on the pages following the first.
<octave>An indication that a passage should be performed one or more octaves above or below its written pitch.
<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.
<pgFoot>A running footer.
<pgHead>A running header.
<pubPlace>Name of the place where a bibliographic item was published.
<repeatMark> An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols – segno and coda – typically above, below, or between staves, but not on the staff.
<syl>Individual lyric syllable.
<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo", "cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").
(MEI.shared) Groups textual elements that occur at the level of individual words or phrases.
<date>A string identifying a point in time or the time period between two such points.
<name>Proper noun or noun phrase.
<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.
<rend>A formatting element indicating special visual rendering, e.g., bold or italicized, of a text word or phrase.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that may appear as part of a bibliographic title.
<title>Title of a bibliographic entity.
<gliss>A continuous or sliding movement from one pitch to another, usually indicated by a straight or wavy line.
<octave>An indication that a passage should be performed one or more octaves above or below its written pitch.
<repeatMark> An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols – segno and coda – typically above, below, or between staves, but not on the staff.
<fing>An individual finger in a fingering indication.
<f>Single element of a figured bass indication.
<harm>An indication of harmony, e.g., chord names, tablature grids, harmonic analysis, figured bass.
<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.
<date>A string identifying a point in time or the time period between two such points.
<dir>An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols, typically above, below, or between staves, but not on the staff — that is not encoded elsewhere in more specific elements, like <tempo>, <dynam> or <repeatMark>.
<dynam>Indication of the volume of a note, phrase, or section of music.
<label>A container for document text that identifies the feature to which it is attached. For a "tool tip" or other generated label, use the @label attribute.
<labelAbbr>A label on the pages following the first.
<name>Proper noun or noun phrase.
<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.
<pgFoot>A running footer.
<pgHead>A running header.
<pubPlace>Name of the place where a bibliographic item was published.
<rend>A formatting element indicating special visual rendering, e.g., bold or italicized, of a text word or phrase.
<respStmt>Names one or more individuals, groups, or in rare cases, mechanical processes, responsible for creation, realization, production, funding, or distribution of the intellectual or artistic content.
<syl>Individual lyric syllable.
<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo", "cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").
<title>Title of a bibliographic entity.
May Contain
textual content
(MEI.namesdates) Groups elements which form part of a personal name.
(MEI.shared) Groups textual elements that occur at the level of individual words or phrases.
(MEI.shared) Groups page beginning-like elements.
<pb>An empty formatting element that forces text to begin on a new page.
(MEI.shared) Groups textual elements that occur at the level of individual words or phrases. This class is equivalent to the model.textPhraseLike class without the pb element.
<symbol>A reference to a previously defined symbol.
(MEI.namesdates) Groups elements used as part of a physical address.
(MEI.namesdates) Groups elements which form part of a geographic name.
(MEI.namesdates) Groups elements that serve as stylistic labels.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements used to represent a postal address.
(MEI.shared) Groups annotation-like elements.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements containing a bibliographic description.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements containing date expressions.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements which describe a measurement forming part of the physical dimensions of an object.
(MEI.shared) Groups editorial intervention elements.
(MEI.shared) Groups identifier-like elements.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that function like line beginnings.
<lb>An empty formatting element that forces text to begin on a new line.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that represent a measurement.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that denote a number or a quantity.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that contain names.
<name>Proper noun or noun phrase.
(MEI.namesdates) Groups elements which contain names of individuals or corporate bodies.
<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.
(MEI.namesdates) Groups place name elements.
(MEI.namesdates) Groups geographic name elements.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that denote a corporate entity that holds a bibliographic item.
(MEI.shared) Collects elements that express a relationship.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that mark typographical features.
<rend>A formatting element indicating special visual rendering, e.g., bold or italicized, of a text word or phrase.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements that denote the name of a bibliographic item.
<title>Title of a bibliographic entity.
textual content
<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.
<lb>An empty formatting element that forces text to begin on a new line.
<name>Proper noun or noun phrase.
<pb>An empty formatting element that forces text to begin on a new page.
<rend>A formatting element indicating special visual rendering, e.g., bold or italicized, of a text word or phrase.
<symbol>A reference to a previously defined symbol.
<title>Title of a bibliographic entity.
Remarks

Parts of a personal name may be captured using <persName> sub-elements. For greater specificity, however, use foreName, famName, genName, addName, genName, nameLink, and roleName elements. The name of the list from which a controlled value for persName is taken may be recorded using the @auth attribute.

The model of this element is based on the persname element of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).

Declaration
<elementSpec rend="add" ident="persName" module="MEI.namesdates">
<gloss xml:lang="en">personal name</gloss>
<desc xml:lang="en">Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="att.common"/>
<memberOf key="att.lang"/>
<memberOf key="att.name"/>
<memberOf key="model.nameLike.agent"/>
</classes>
<content>
<zeroOrMore>
<choice>
<rng:text/>
<ref name="model.textPhraseLike"/>
<ref name="model.editLike"/>
<ref name="model.transcriptionLike"/>
<ref name="model.persNamePart"/>
</choice>
</zeroOrMore>
</content>
<remarks xml:lang="en">
<p>Parts of a personal name may be captured using <gi scheme="MEI">persName</gi> sub-elements. For greater specificity, however, use foreName, famName, genName, addName, genName, nameLink, and roleName elements. The name of the list from which a controlled value for persName is taken may be recorded using the <att>auth</att> attribute.</p>
<p>The model of this element is based on the <ref target="https://www.loc.gov/ead/EAD3taglib/EAD3-TL-eng.html#elem-persname">persname</ref> element of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).</p>
</remarks>
</elementSpec>
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