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<event-desc> Event Description

This is a description of an event in the publication history of an article, for example, reprinting or publishing a revised online edition. This text field may be as simple a few words or as complex as a narrative with embedded markup.
Attributes
specific-use

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<event>
Description
Any combination of:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  event-desc   (#PCDATA %event-desc-elements;)*             >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | article-id | issn | issn-l | isbn |
article-version | article-version-alternatives | date | string-date | pub-date |
pub-date-not-available)*
Tagged Samples
Simple events
Using <pub-history> and <event>s for an elaboration of or a replacement for <date> elements inside <history>. 
...
<article-meta>
 ...
 <pub-history>
  <event event-type="received">
   <event-desc>Received: <string-date iso-8601-date="2017-09-12">
    <month>September</month> <day>12</day>, <year>2017</year></string-date></event-desc>
  </event>

  <event event-type="accepted">
   <event-desc>Accepted: <string-date iso-8601-date="2018-05-26">
    <month>May</month> <day>26</day>, <year>2018</year></string-date></event-desc>
  </event>

  <event event-type="pub">
   <event-desc>Accepted Manuscript published: <string-date iso-8601-date="2018-05-30">
    <month>May</month> <day>30</day>, <year>2018</year></string-date> (version 1)</event-desc>
  </event>

  <event event-type="pub">
   <event-desc>Version of Record published: <string-date iso-8601-date="2018-06-13">
    <month>June</month> <day>13</day>, <year>2018</year></string-date> (version 2)</event-desc>
  </event>
 </pub-history>
</article-meta>
...
Detailed event description 
...
<article-meta>
 ...
 <pub-history>
  <event event-type="revision">
   <event-desc>The first version of this article was 
    enhanced considerably between versions of the XML 
    instance. These changes can be seen <ext-link
    ext-link-type="uri" 
    xlink:href="https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e00666v3">
    here</ext-link>.</event-desc>
   <date date-type="accepted-manuscript-r1" 
     iso-8601-date="2016-07-29">
    <day>29</day>
    <month>07</month>
    <year>2016</year>
   </date>
   <self-uri content-type="accepted-manuscript"
     xlink:href="https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e00666v2"/>
  </event>
  ...
 </pub-history>
</article-meta>
...