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<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.

Usage/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>.
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-type
name-style (default = western)
specific-use

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<contrib>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <name-alternatives>, <person-group>, <principal-award-recipient>, <principal-investigator>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
Description
Any combination of:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  string-name  (#PCDATA %string-name-elements;)*            >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | degrees | given-names | prefix | surname |
suffix)*
Tagged Samples
Place <given-names> before <surname> 
...  
<string-name name-style="western">
 <given-names>Y.</given-names> <surname>Song</surname>
</string-name>
...
Alternative languages 
...  
<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>
...
In citations
Mixed citation
...
<ref id="B6">
 <label>6</label>
 <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>
...
Element citation
...
<ref id="B6">
 <label>6</label>
 <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>
...
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