Container element for the parts of a single date associated with an book’s publication (for example, the date a preprint chapter was released, the date a book was published in print or as an eBook).
As part of the book metadata or book part metadata, the <pub-date> is allowed to repeat; each repetition can take a @pub-type attribute to distinguish which form of publication, for example, print publication, eBook publication, web distribution, etc.
<!ELEMENT pub-date %pub-date-model; >
(day | month | year | season | string-date | x)*
Any combination of:
...
<book-meta>
<book-id book-id-type="publisher">handbook-648</book-id>
<book-title-group>
<book-title>The NCBI Handbook</book-title>
</book-title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="editor" rid="bid.m.1">
<name><surname>McEntyre</surname>
<given-names>Jo</given-names></name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="editor" rid="bid.m.1">
<name><surname>Ostell</surname>
<given-names>Jim</given-names></name>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="bid.m.1">
<institution>National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI), National Library of Medicine, National Institutes
of Health</institution>,
<addr-line>Bethesda, MD 20892-6510</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date iso-8601-date="2002-11"><month>11</month><year>2002</year></pub-date>
<publisher>...</publisher>
...
</book-meta>
...
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