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<date> Date

Container element for the parts of a single calendar date.

Usage/Remarks

A <date> element may contain date components such as <day>, <month>, and <year> (which are typically given numeric values), as well as non-numeric elements such as <season> (which is a text string).
When used within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element names the publication date of the cited source.
Related Elements
Within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element is used to name the date of publication of the cited source. The elements <year>, <date>, <day>, <month>, and <season> may all be used to describe the date a cited resource was published. Other dates inside a citation, such as a copyright date, the date on which the author accessed the resource, or a withdrawal date, should be tagged using <date-in-citation> with the @content-type attribute used to name the type of date (copyright, access-date, time-stamp, etc.).
Attributes
calendar
date-type
iso-8601-date
publication-format
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
Models and Context
May be contained in
<element-citation>, <event>, <event-desc>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <pub-history>, <related-article>, <related-object>
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  date         %date-model;                                 >
Expanded Content Model

(((day?, month?) | season)?, year?, era?, string-date?)

Tagged Samples
<pub-history>: Date approved 
...
<book-part-meta>
 ...
 <contrib-group>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
   <collab collab-type="committee">Technical Committee ISO/TC 108, 
    Subcommittee SC 2</collab>
  </contrib>
 </contrib-group>
 <fpage seq="1">1</fpage>
 <lpage>23</lpage>
 <pub-history>
  <date date-type="approved" iso-8601-date="2012-06-01">
   <day>01</day>
   <month>06</month>
   <year>2012</year>
  </date>
 </pub-history>
 ...
</book-part-meta>
...
<pub-history>: multiple dates 
...
<book-meta>
 ...
 <pub-date date-type="publication" publication-format="electronic" iso-8601-date="1998-09-17">
  <day>17</day>
  <month>09</month>
  <year>1998</year>
 </pub-date>
 <pub-date date-type="publication" publication-format="print" iso-8601-date="1998-11-09">
  <month>09</month>
  <year>1998</year>
 </pub-date>
 <pub-history>
  <date date-type="received" publication-format="manuscript" iso-8601-date="1998-01-05">
   <day>05</day>
   <month>01</month>
   <year>1998</year>
  </date>
  <date date-type="rev-request" iso-8601-date="1998-03-14">
   <day>14</day>
   <month>03</month>
   <year>1998</year>
  </date>
  <date date-type="rev-received" iso-8601-date="1998-05-24">
   <day>24</day>
   <month>05</month>
   <year>1998</year>
  </date>
  <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="1998-06-06">
   <day>06</day>
   <month>06</month>
   <year>1998</year>
  </date>
 </pub-history>
 ...
</book-meta>
...
In <event> 
...
<book-meta>
 <book-title-group>
  <book-title>Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 
   2013</book-title>
 </book-title-group>
 <pub-date iso-8601-date="2013-10">
  <month>October</month><year>2013</year>
 </pub-date>
 <book-volume-number>10</book-volume-number>
 <isbn content-type="isbn-13">978-1-935958-06-2</isbn>
 <publisher>
  <publisher-name>Mulberry Technologies, Inc.</publisher-name>
 </publisher>
 <pub-history>
  <event>
   <event-desc>pre-conference proceedings</event-desc>
   <date iso-8601-date="2013-07" date-type="pub" 
     publication-format="online">
    <month>July</month><year>2013</year>
   </date>
  </event>

  <event event-type="revision">
   <event-desc>post-conference proceedings</event-desc>
   <date iso-8601-date="2013-10" date-type="pub" 
     publication-format="online">
    <month>October</month><year>2013</year>
   </date>
  </event>
 </pub-history>
 ...
</book-meta>
...
Non-Gregorian calendar 
...
<date date-type="received" calendar="Japanese" 
  iso-8601-date="2013-07-01">
 <day>1</day>
 <month>7</month>
 <year>25</year>
 <era>昭和</era>
</date>
...
Time stamp in citations 
...
<date date-type="online" specific-use="metadata" 
  iso-8601-date="2012-05-03T08:47:08">
 <string-date>2012-05-03T08:47:08</string-date>
</date>
...
Publication date in citations
Element citation
...
<ref id="B14">
 <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="print">
  <person-group person-group-type="author">
   <name><surname>Hart</surname>
    <given-names>JT</given-names></name>
  </person-group>
  <source>A new kind of doctor: the general practitioner&rsquo;s 
   part in the health of the community</source>
  <date iso-8601-date="1988" date-type="published">
   <year>1988</year>
  </date>
  <publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>
  <publisher-name>Merlin Press</publisher-name>
 </element-citation>
</ref>
...
Mixed citation
...
<ref id="B14">
 <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="print"> 
  <person-group person-group-type="author">
  <name><surname>Hart</surname> <given-names>JT</given-names>
  </name></person-group>. <source>A new kind of doctor: the 
  general practitioner&rsquo;s part in the health of the 
  community</source>. <publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>: 
  <publisher-name>Merlin Press</publisher-name>, 
  <date iso-8601-date="1988" date-type="pub"><year>1988</year></date>.
 </mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
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