date (hendiLetters)
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<date> (date) contains a date in any format.
Other Customizations
Attributes
type
opt
characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology.
Possible values
baptism
(Baptism)
Identifies the selected date as date of baptism.
funeral
(Funeral)
Identifies the selected date as date of funeral.
performance
(Performance)
Identifies the selected date as date of performance.
editor
(editor)
Identifies the selected date as reconstructed by an editor.
source
(source)
Identifies the selected date as written on a source.
postal
(postal)
Identifies the selected date as a postal.
calendar
opt
indicates the system or calendar to which the date represented by the content of this element belongs.
Possible values
Julian
Identifies the selected date as specified according to the Julian calendar. The normalized value in when has to be specified after the standard, ergo the Gregorian calendar.
Example
<date when="1980-02">early February 1980</date>
Example
<date when="1977-06-12">Twelfth Day
of June in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-seven of the Republic
the Two Hundredth and first and of the University the Eighty-Sixth.</date>
Example
<date when="1990-09">September 1990</date>
