<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. [14.3.2 The Person Element 16.2.2 The Participant Description]
Module namesdates — Names, Dates, People, and Places
Attributes
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.
sex⚓︎ specifies the sex of the person.
Status Optional
Datatype 1–∞ occurrences of teidata.sex separated by whitespace
Note

Values for this attribute may be defined locally by a project, or they may refer to an external standard.
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.
age⚓︎ specifies an age group for the person.
Status Optional
Datatype teidata.enumerated
Note

Values for this attribute may be locally defined by a project, using arbitrary keywords such as infant, child, teen, adult, or senior, 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.
Member of
model.personLike
Contained by
corpus: particDesc
namesdates: event listPerson org
May contain
analysis: interp interpGrp span spanGrp
certainty: certainty precision respons
core: bibl biblStruct cb ellipsis gap gb index lb listBibl milestone name note noteGrp p pb ptr ref
figures: figure notatedMusic
header: biblFull idno
iso-fs: fLib fs fvLib
linking: ab alt altGrp anchor join joinGrp link linkGrp timeline
msdescription: msDesc
namesdates: affiliation age birth death education event faith floruit gender langKnowledge listEvent nationality occupation persName persPronouns persona residence sex socecStatus state trait
spoken: incident kinesic pause shift vocal writing
tagdocs: listRef
textcrit: app witDetail
transcr: addSpan damageSpan delSpan fw listTranspose metamark space substJoin
Note

May contain either a prose description organized as paragraphs, or a sequence of more specific demographic elements drawn from the model.personPart class.
Example
<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>
Example
<person sex="intersex" role="god"
 age="immortal">
 <persName>Hermaphroditos</persName>
 <persName xml:lang="grc">Ἑρμαφρόδιτος</persName>
</person>
Example
<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>
Example

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>
Example

This example demonstrates the use of a ref element to provide more information about a person.

<person age="G2" role="author"
 xml:id="W0212" sex="F">
 <birth when="1787"/>
 <death when="1855"/>
 <persName type="main">Mitford, Mary Russell (1787–1855)</persName>
 <persName resp="#Nicoll">MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL</persName>
 <listBibl type="lacyTitles">
  <desc>Lacy's Acting Editions</desc>
  <bibl>
   <ref target="lacy:L1280">Foscari</ref>
  </bibl>
  <bibl>
   <ref target="lacy:L1337">Rienzi</ref>
  </bibl>
 </listBibl>
 <listRef type="seeAlso">
  <ref target="https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1386">ATCL</ref>
  <ref target="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18859">ODNB</ref>
  <ref target="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Russell_Mitford">Wikipedia</ref>
  <ref target="https://digitalmitford.org">Digital Mitford</ref>
 </listRef>
</person>
Content model 
<content>
 <alternate>
  <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1"
   maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
  <alternate minOccurs="0"
   maxOccurs="unbounded">
   <classRef key="model.personPart"/>
   <classRef key="model.global"/>
   <classRef key="model.ptrLike"/>
  </alternate>
 </alternate>
</content>
Schema Declaration 
<rng:element name="person">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.editLike.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.sortable.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="role">
   <rng:list>
    <rng:oneOrMore>
     <rng:ref name="teidata.enumerated"/>
    </rng:oneOrMore>
   </rng:list>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="sex">
   <rng:list>
    <rng:oneOrMore>
     <rng:ref name="teidata.sex"/>
    </rng:oneOrMore>
   </rng:list>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="gender">
   <rng:list>
    <rng:oneOrMore>
     <rng:ref name="teidata.gender"/>
    </rng:oneOrMore>
   </rng:list>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="age">
   <rng:ref name="teidata.enumerated"/>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:choice>
  <rng:oneOrMore>
   <rng:ref name="model.pLike"/>
  </rng:oneOrMore>
  <rng:zeroOrMore>
   <rng:choice>
    <rng:ref name="model.personPart"/>
    <rng:ref name="model.global"/>
    <rng:ref name="model.ptrLike"/>
   </rng:choice>
  </rng:zeroOrMore>
 </rng:choice>
</rng:element>
element person
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.global.analytic.attributes,
   att.global.change.attributes,
   att.global.facs.attributes,
   att.global.linking.attributes,
   att.global.rendition.attributes,
   att.global.responsibility.attributes,
   att.global.source.attributes,
   att.editLike.attributes,
   att.sortable.attributes,
   attribute role { list { teidata.enumerated+ } }?,
   attribute sex { list { teidata.sex+ } }?,
   attribute gender { list { teidata.gender+ } }?,
   attribute age { teidata.enumerated }?,
   ( model.pLike+ | ( model.personPart | model.global | model.ptrLike )* )
}