## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <affiliation>

`<affiliation>` | (affiliation) contains an informal description of a person's present or past affiliation with some organization, for example an employer or sponsor.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from demographic

Example

    <affiliation>Junior project officer for the US
      <name type="org">National Endowment for the Humanities</name>
    </affiliation>

Note | If included, the name of the organization may be tagged using either the `<name>` element as above, or (when the additional tag set for names and dates is in use) the more specific `<orgName>` element.
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 affiliation %om.RR; %phrase.seq;>
    <!ATTLIST affiliation
          %a.global;>

See further | 23.2.2 The Participants Description

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