<relation> (relationship) describes any kind of relationship or linkage amongst a specified group of participants.
Attributes:
type categorizes the relationship in some respect, e.g. as social, personal or other.
Datatype: CDATA
Legal values:
social relationship concerned with social roles
personal relationship concerned with personal roles, e.g. kinship, marriage, etc.
other other kinds of relationship
Default: personal
desc briefly describes the relationship.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: an open list of application-dependent keywords
Default: #IMPLIED
active identifies the ``active''participants in a non-mutual relationship, or all the participants in a mutual one.
Datatype: IDREFS
Values: a list of identifier values for participant or participant groups
Default: #IMPLIED
passive identifies the ``passive'' participants in a non-mutual relationship.
Datatype: IDREFS
Values: a list of identifier values for participant or participant groups
Default: #IMPLIED
mutual indicates whether the relationship holds equally amongst all the participants.
Datatype: (Y | N)
Legal values:
Y the relationship is mutual
N the relationship is directed
Default: Y
Example 
  <relation type=social desc="supervisor"
       active=P1 passive="P2 P3 P4" mutual=N>
Example 
  <relation type=personal desc="friends"
       active="P2 P3 P4" mutual=Y>
Note
Tagsetauxiliary tag set for corpora and collections
Class
Filenameteicorp2
Content: Empty
ParentsparticLinks
Children[none]
Declaration
<!ELEMENT relation      - O  EMPTY                              >
<!ATTLIST relation           %a.global
          type               CDATA               personal
          desc               CDATA               #IMPLIED
          active             IDREFS              #IMPLIED
          passive            IDREFS              #IMPLIED
          mutual             (Y | N)             Y              >
See 23.2.2

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