Identifies the “role” of the persons being named in the <person-group> element, for example, a group of authors, a group of editors, members of the G&S chorus, etc.
Although the DTD cannot enforce any typing, suggested types include:
all-authors |
Used to identify a complete list of authors when a subset of the author group is used elsewhere in the citation. This may occur, for example, when a citation identifies both a book and a chapter within the book. |
assignee |
Persons to whom a patent is awarded. |
author |
Content creators. |
complier |
Persons who put together a composite work from multiple sources. |
editor |
Content editors. |
guest-editor |
Content editors that have been invited to edit all or part of a work. |
inventor |
Idea, software, or machine creators. |
trans-editor |
Editors of a translated version of a work. |
translator |
Persons who translated the cited work from one language into another. |
Value | Meaning |
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Data characters | Text, numbers, or special characters. |
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used. |