<string-name>
Name of Person (Unstructured)
Container element for personal names captured with mixed-content where the order of the name components is not enforced.
Remarks
This is a very loose element, which may contain text, numbers, special characters, generated text, and any or all of the naming elements, such as <surname>.
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <string-name>, see Personal Names in Citations.
Usage: If the name parts are unknown or untagged, put the whole name within the <string-name> element, for example, <string-name>Ice Cube</string-name>. Use of the <string-name> element is more likely to lead to better searching in a repository than merely leaving the person’s name untagged.
Since the <string-name> model permits the tagging of name parts within it, a name like “Prince Charles” could be tagged as a given name “Charles” (<given-names>) and prefix “Prince” (<prefix>), but such tagging is likely to be rare and <string-name>Prince Charles</string-name> is also valid tagging.
Examples of when name parts might be usefully tagged inside <string-name> include:
- A scenario in which “string names” are tagged as part of a preliminary process, and subsequent processes include tagging the specific name parts; or
- An instance in which reverse order of a name, with the separating comma-space, is to be
preserved as a single string, but name parts still need to be tagged for enhanced search capability, i.e., “Abernathy, the Honorable Sir Edward” might be tagged as:
<string-name><surname>Abernathy</surname>, the Honorable Sir Edward</string-name>
and “Smith, Jane” might be tagged as:<string-name><surname>Smith</surname>, <given-names>Jane</given-names></string-name>
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT string-name (#PCDATA %string-name-elements;)* >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | inline-media | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x | degrees | given-names | prefix | surname | suffix)*
Description
Any combination of:
- Text, numbers, or special characters
- Linking Elements
- Related Material Elements
- <hr> Horizontal Rule
- Emphasis Elements
- <bold> Bold
- <fixed-case> Fixed Case
- <italic> Italic
- <monospace> Monospace Text (Typewriter Text)
- <overline> Overline
- <overline-start> Overline Start
- <overline-end> Overline End
- <roman> Roman
- <sans-serif> Sans Serif
- <sc> Small Caps
- <strike> Strike Through
- <underline> Underline
- <underline-start> Underline Start
- <underline-end> Underline End
- <ruby> Ruby Annotation Wrapper
- <alternatives> Alternatives For Processing
- Inline Display Elements
- Inline Math Elements
- Other Inline Elements
- Internal Linking Elements
- Baseline Change Elements
- <x> X - Generated Text and Punctuation
- <degrees> Degree(s)
- <given-names> Given (First) Names
- <prefix> Prefix
- <surname> Surname
- <suffix> Suffix
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
...
<string-name name-style="western">
<given-names>Y.</given-names> <surname>Song</surname>
</string-name>
...
Example 2
Used to provide alternative names:
...
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Chu</surname>
<given-names>J. H.</given-names></name>
<string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">褚君浩</string-name>
</name-alternatives>
...
... <article-meta> ... <contrib-group> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <name-alternatives> <name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname> <given-names>Y. P.</given-names></name> <string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">张轶泼</string-name> </name-alternatives> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="a1">1</xref> <xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="n1">a)</xref> </contrib> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <name-alternatives> <name name-style="western"><surname>Isobe</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">磯部光孝</string-name> </name-alternatives> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="a2">2</xref> </contrib> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <name-alternatives> <name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname> <given-names>Yi</given-names></name> <string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">刘仪</string-name> </name-alternatives> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="a1">1</xref> </contrib> </contrib-group> <aff id="a1">...</aff> <aff id="a2">...</aff> <author-notes id="n1">...</author-notes> ... </article-meta> ...
Example 3
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
... <ref id="B6"> <element-citation> <string-name><surname>DerSimonian</surname>, <given-names>R</given-names></string-name> <string-name><surname>Laird</surname>, <given-names>N</given-names></string-name> <article-title>Meta-analysis in clinical trials</article-title> <source>Controlled Clin Trials</source> <volume>7</volume> <year iso-8601-date="1986">1986</year> <fpage>177</fpage> <lpage>188</lpage> <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">3802833</pub-id> </element-citation> </ref> ...
Example 4
In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
... <ref id="B6"> <mixed-citation> <string-name><surname>DerSimonian</surname>, <given-names>R</given-names></string-name>, <string-name><surname>Laird</surname>, <given-names>N</given-names></string-name>. <article-title>Meta-analysis in clinical trials</article-title>. <source>Controlled Clin Trials</source>: <volume>7</volume>; <year iso-8601-date="1986">1986</year>; <fpage>177</fpage>-<lpage>188</lpage> [ <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">3802833</pub-id>]. </mixed-citation> </ref> ...