## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# names

`names` | groups those elements which refer to named persons, places, organizations etc.
Member of classes | (none)
Members | bloc country geog geogName measure name persName placeName pubPlace region rs settlement

Declaration

    <!ENTITY % a.names '
          key CDATA #IMPLIED
          reg CDATA #IMPLIED'>

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

`key` | provides an alternative identifier for the object being named, such as a database record key.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any string
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

    <name type="place">Montaillou</name>
    is not a large parish.
    At the time of the events which led to
    <name key="BXII" type="person">Fournier's</name> investigations,
    the local population consisted of between 200 and
    250 inhabitants.

Note | The value may be a unique identifier from a database, or simply a more explicit name for the referent. Its purpose is only to record an identification; if the analysis leading to the identification is to be recorded as well, the analytic tags described in chapter 16 Feature Structures should be used in addition or instead.

`reg` | (regularization) gives a normalized or regularized form of the name used.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string of characters.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

    At the time of the events which led to
    <name reg="Benedict XII, Pope of Avignon (Jacques Fournier)"
    type="person">Fournier's</name> investigations,
    the local population consisted of between 200 and
    250 inhabitants.

Note | In providing a `regularized' form, no claim is made that the form in the source text is incorrect; the regularized form is simply that chosen as the main form for purposes of unifying variant forms under a single heading.

Module Declared in file dummy; Declared in file teiclas2.ent; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
See further 6.4.1 Referring Strings

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