calendar
Calendar
Name of the calendar used in naming a date such as a publication date, for example,
“Gregorian”, “Japanese” (Emperor years), or
“Thai Buddha”.
In this Tag Set, many of the date elements, such as
<pub-date> and
<year>, may take a
@calendar attribute to indicate the calendar in which the date is given.
For example, a calendar might be named as:
- Arabic-Hijrah
- Chinese
- English-Hijrah
- Gregorian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian
- ROC-official
- Thai-Buddha
Here is an example of a year and calendar in Pinyin:
<year calendar="Nónglì">Guisi</year>
Neither a date not a calendar need be stated in English. The element that holds the
@calendar
attribute may also take an
@xml:lang attribute to name the language
or script
of the element content. For example, here is a year from the
traditional Chinese calendar, in which both the
@calendar
and the year itself are given in Chinese:
<year xml:lang="zh" calendar="農曆">癸巳</year>
<access-date>,
<conf-date>,
<date>,
<date-in-citation>,
<pub-date>,
<string-date>,
<year>
| Value |
Meaning |
| Text, numbers, or special characters. |
Name of the calendar used in the date, for example:
“Gregorian”,
“Japanese”, or
“Chinese”
|
| Restriction: @calendar is an optional attribute; there is no default.
|
...
<date date-type="received" calendar="Japanese"
iso-8601-date="1947-07-01"><day>1</day>
<month>7</month><year>22</year><era>昭和</era>
</date>
...