Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

currency

Currency

Type of currency in which the price is presented.

Remarks

Best Practice: Although this is an optional attribute, best practice would be to include it for every price where it is known. The attribute can take any value, but best practice is to use the ISO 4217 “currency code” values. These are 3-letter, all upper case codes that are NOT the same as the ISO country codes. Examples include:

USD
United States Dollar in the US and US territories

CAD
Canadian Dollar

EUR
European Union Euro

RUB
Russian Ruble
These codes are defined by ISO in ISO 4217 and listed at: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/currencycodeslist.html#SZ.

With the Element

<price>
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters An abbreviation for a currency, typically using the ISO 4217 three-letter alphabetic codes, for example, “USD” for the United States Dollar.
Restriction: @currency is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Example 


...
<product product-type="book">
...
<publisher-name>Wildside Books</publisher-name>, Rockville,
MD, 2010, Price: <price currency="USD">$4.99</price>. ISBN:
<isbn>1557426805</isbn>, <size units="pages">330</size> p.
(paperback)</product>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

Version of December 2014

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