| <birth> | (Birth details) contains information about a person's birth, such as its date
and place. | 
| Attributes: | | date | specifies the date of birth in an ISO standard form (yyyy-mm-dd). |  |  | Datatype: %ISO-date |  |  | Values: a date in ISO standard form (yyyy-mm-dd). |  |  | Default: #IMPLIED | 
 | 
| Example | <birth>Before 1920, Midlands region.</birth> | 
| Example | <birth date=1960-12-10>In a small cottage near
< name type=place>Aix-la-Chapelle</name>,
early in the morning of <date>10 Dec 1960</date>
</birth> | 
| Note | Dates and place names, if included in the content of this
element, should in general be tagged using the <date>  and
<namee>  elements respectively. If the additional tagset for
Names and Dates is in use, the more specific elements defined by that
tagset may be used as an alternative. | 
| Tagset | auxiliary tag set for corpora and 
collections | 
| Class | demographic | 
| Filename | teicorp2 | 
| Content: |  | 
| Parents | person personGrp | 
| Children | #PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage 
date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula fw 
geogName gi gloss handShift hi lang link m measure mentioned name num 
oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr ref reg 
restore rs s seg sic soCalled space supplied tag term time timeRange 
timeStruct title unclear val w xptr xref | 
| Declaration | <!ELEMENT birth         - -  (%phrase.seq)                      >
<!ATTLIST birth              %a.global
          date               %ISO-date           #IMPLIED       > | 
| See | 23.2.2 |