## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <occupation>

`<occupation>` | contains an informal description of a person's trade, profession or occupation.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes and those inherited from demographic)

`scheme` | identifies the classification system or taxonomy in use by supplying the identifier of a `<taxonomy>` element elsewhere in the header.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: must identify a `<taxonomy>` element
| Default: #IMPLIED

`code` | identifies an occupation code defined within the classification system or taxonomy defined by the `scheme` attribute.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: Must identify a `<category>` element
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <occupation>accountant</occupation>

Example

    <occupation scheme="rg" code="acc">accountant</occupation>

Example

    <occupation scheme="rg" code="acc">accountant
    with specialist knowledge of oil industry
    </occupation>

Note

The content of this element may be used as an alternative to the more formal specification made possible by its attributes; it may also be used to supplement the formal specification with commentary or clarification.

Module Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpus
Class demographic
Data Description May contain character data and phrase-level elements.
May contain #PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref
May occur within person personGrp
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT occupation %om.RR; %phrase.seq;>
    <!ATTLIST occupation
          %a.global;
          scheme IDREF #IMPLIED
          code IDREF #IMPLIED>

See further 23.2.2 The Participants Description

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