calendar
Calendar
Name of the calendar used in naming a date such as a publication date, for example,
“Gregorian”, “Japanese” (Emperor years), or
“Thai Buddha”.
In this Tag Set, many of the date elements, such as
<conf-date> and
<year>, may take a
@calendar attribute to indicate the calendar in which the date is given.
For example, a calendar might be named as:
- Arabic-Hijrah
- Chinese
- English-Hijrah
- Gregorian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian
- ROC-official
- Thai-Buddha
Here is an example of a year and calendar in Pinyin:
<year calendar="Nónglì">Guisi</year>
Neither a date not a calendar need be stated in English. The element that holds the
@calendar
attribute may also take an
@xml:lang attribute to name the language
or script
of the element content. For example, here is a year from the
traditional Chinese calendar, in which both the
@calendar
and the year itself are given in Chinese:
<year xml:lang="zh" calendar="農曆">癸巳</year>