## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# temporalExpr

`temporalExpr` | (temporal expression) groups component elements of temporal expressions involving dates and time, and defines an additional set of attributes common to them.
Member of classes | (none)
Members | dateStruct day distance hour minute month occasion offset second timeStruct week year

Declaration

    <!ENTITY % x.temporalExpr "" >
    <!ENTITY % m.temporalExpr "%x.temporalExpr; %n.dateStruct; | %n.day; |
    %n.distance; | %n.hour; | %n.minute; | %n.month; | %n.occasion; | %n.offset; |
    %n.second; | %n.timeStruct; | %n.week; | %n.year;">

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

`value` | supplies the value of a date or time in a standard form.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string representing a date in standard format; recommended form is ISO 8601 extended format (`yyyy-mm-dd` for dates, `hh:mm:ss.sss` for times).
| Default: #IMPLIED

Note

The standard form used should be described in the `<stdVals>` element in the TEI header. If a decimal point is used (e.g., to indicate fractions of a second), the character used to indicate a decimal point (typically a full stop or comma) should be documented in the `<stdVals>` elment in the TEI header.

Encoders may follow ISO 8601:2000(E), Data elements and interchange formats — Information interchange — Representation of dates and times perhaps as limited by the W3C's profile Date and Time Formats. However, standard forms may be defined from scratch, or borrowed from existing practice.

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

Example:

Note | For example and discussion, see the description of the names class.
`reg` | (regularization) gives a normalized or regularized form of the name used.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string of characters.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`type` | characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any string of characters. The range of permissible values is application dependent.
| Default: #IMPLIED
`full` | indicates whether the date element is given in full, as an abbreviation or simply as an initial
| Datatype: (yes | abb | init)

Legal values are:

yes | the temporal expression is spelled out in full.
abb | the temporal expression is given in an abbreviated form.
init | the temporal expression is abbreviated.

| Default: yes

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 teiclas2.ent; Declared in file teind2.ent; Declared in file teind2.ent; Additional tag set for Names and Dates: enabled by TEI.names.dates
See further 20.4 Dates and Time

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