<string-date>
Date as a String
Date represented as text.
Remarks
This element is typically used for dates for which months and years are not given (for example, “In apple blossom time”). While the <string-date> element may also be used for any date that is represented as a sequence of characters (i.e., “January, 2001”, “Fall 2001”, “March 11, 2001”), it is best practice, when possible, to tag the year, month, and/or day as numbers, so “January, 2001” would become:
... <month>01</month> <year iso-8601-date="2001-01">2001</year> ...
This Tag Set allows <string-date> both inside <date> and at the same level as <date>. This flexibility enables preservation of nearly any publisher’s structure.
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT string-date (#PCDATA %string-date-elements;)* >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | day | era | month | season | year)*
Description
This element may be contained in:
Example
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref id="B12">
<label>[12 Lapeyre]</label>
<element-citation>
<string-name>Rene Lapeyre du Fontclaire Carnu, IV</string-name>
<article-title>Foraminifera of the Lower Hellstooth</article-title>
<source>Local Paleo</source>
<string-date iso-8601-date="1924">Some time before
<year>1924</year></string-date>
<publisher-loc>Rockville, MD</publisher-loc>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...