designator

Designator of the Edition

The edition or version number as an unadorned numeric or alphabetic value for machine comparisons.

Remarks

When an edition, version, or similar statement contains ordinals (such as “3rd”) or words such as “3rd print edition”, this attribute can preserve the edition/version number as a simple, machine-processable number, such as “3”.

Used on Elements: <edition>, <version>

ValueMeaning
The numeral or alphabetic character that indicates the edition or version numberThe straight unadorned edition number, for machine processing. Typically this is a number such as “4” or an alphabetic character such as “A”.
Restriction@designator is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Example 

...
    <mixed-citation> <collab>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards</collab>.
     <source>Performance standards for antimicrobial disk susceptibility tests</source>.
     <comment>Approved standard</comment>. <edition designator="7">7<sup>th</sup> ed.</edition> p.
     <fpage>M2</fpage>&ndash;<lpage>A7</lpage>. ... </mixed-citation>
    ...

Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 2.0 Tag Library

Version of February 2016

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