Identifies the purpose of a date within a citation, when that date has been tagged using the<date>element, which makes the date a publication date.
In this Tag Set, this attribute is likely to be used very rarely. It can only be used on a <date> element when that element is used in a citation. Since <date>s in citations are used to mark the primary publication date, the usual value is likely to be “date-type="pub-date"”.
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Text, numbers, or special characters | Typically a word or phrase that names or describes the purpose of a date, in this case, the publication date:pub-date. |
| Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used. | |
Although designed to accept any text as its value, the following is the only suggested date type:
|
pub-date |
The date a work was published |