Dates

Dates anywhere in the text quoted can be tagged with precision using the <date> element:


         He succeeded his father                   <persName ref="PRS8550sardaDe"><roleName type="title">ʾaṣe</roleName>
            Śarḍa Dǝngǝl</persName> when he was 15 years old in <date>1597</date>.
         

Example 1


<date calendar="ethiopian" when="1888" when-custom="1881" evidence="internal">፲ወ፰፻፹ወ፩ ዓመት፡ ምሕረት፡ </date>
            

Example 2

@when always carries the standard ISO date in the Gregorian calendar, while the @when-custom (or @notBefore-custom, @notAfter-custom) can hold the value in the calendar specified by @calendar.

BCE dates are therefore expressed with -: <death when="-0931">

date expressing a duration rather than a point in time, might use the @dur following w3c recommendations. A period of 10 years and 5 months would be encoded as


<date dur="P10Y5M"></date>

Example 3

attribute value
@when ISO gregorian date
@when-custom date in specified calendar
@notBefore date range limit
@notAfter date range limit
@notBefore-custom date range limit in specified calendar
@notAfter-custom date range limit in specified calendar
@dur duration
@type type of date (reign, lifespan, etc.)
@calendar specified calendar according to list
@resp with the ID of responsible
@cert certainty low, medium or high (default)
@evidence especially for date assigned to something, with set of values

You can align a commemoration to a day in the calendar, without that being a specific day in history using a @ref like in the following example. You can use also @calendar if relevant.


              <date ref="ethiocal:Maskaram1">
         1st Maskaram
  </date>
  

Example 4

The ethioCal namespace refers to the calendar file which can be found here, and Maskaram1 is an @xml:id in that file. Used in conjunction with the commemoration in @subtype of <div> this can help collect commemorations for a given calendar day.

This page is referred to in the following pages

    Revisions of this page

    • Pietro Maria Liuzzo on 2018-04-30: first version of guidelines from Wiki
    • Dorothea Reule on 2018-05-18: Split from named entities