Related Elements

A number of elements in the Suite relate to page numbers:

• <fpage> names the page number on which a work begins;
• <lpage> names the page number on which a work ends (which should be the same page number or a number larger than the starting page number);
• <elocation-id> replaces the start and end page elements just described for electronic-only publications;
• <page-range> records discontinuous page ranges; and
• <page-count> holds the total page count, if the publisher has provided one. Typically this element records what the publisher said and makes no validity claim. The element <page-count> should be used only in metadata. The citation elements (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>) use the element <size> to tag the total page count of a cited work. (Historical Note: The deprecated <nlm-citation> element still uses the <page-count> element.)

Best Practice: The <page-range> is intended to record supplementary information and should not be used in the place of the <fpage> and <lpage> elements, which are typically needed for citation matching. The <page-range> element is merely a text string, containing such material as “8-11, 14-19, 40”, which would mean that the work began on page 8, ran through 11, skipped to page 14, ran through 19, and concluded on page 40.

<!ELEMENT  elocation-id (#PCDATA)                                    >

...
<pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2002-08-28">
<day>28</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2002</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2</volume>
<elocation-id>E27</elocation-id>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2002-08-22">
<day>22</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2002</year>
</date>
</history>...