## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <relation>

`<relation>` | (relationship) describes any kind of relationship or linkage amongst a specified group of participants.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

`type` | categorizes the relationship in some respect, e.g. as social, personal or other.
| Datatype: CDATA

Suggested values include:

social | relationship concerned with social roles
personal | relationship concerned with personal roles, e.g. kinship, marriage, etc.
other | other kinds of relationship

| Default: personal

`desc` | briefly describes the relationship.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: an open list of application-dependent keywords
| Default: #IMPLIED
`active` | identifies the ‘active’participants in a non-mutual relationship, or all the participants in a mutual one.
| Datatype: IDREFS
| Values: a list of identifier values for participant or participant groups
| Default: #IMPLIED
`passive` | identifies the ‘passive’ participants in a non-mutual relationship.
| Datatype: IDREFS
| Values: a list of identifier values for participant or participant groups
| Default: #IMPLIED
`mutual` | indicates whether the relationship holds equally amongst all the participants.
| Datatype: (Y | N)

Legal values are:

Y | the relationship is mutual
N | the relationship is directed

| Default: Y

Example

    <relation type="social" desc="supervisor" active="p1" passive="p2 p3 p4" mutual="N"/>

Example

    <relation type="personal" desc="friends" active="p2 p3 p4" mutual="Y"/>

Module Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpus
Data Description Empty
May occur within particLinks
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT relation %om.RO; EMPTY>
    <!ATTLIST relation
          %a.global;
          type CDATA "personal"
          desc CDATA #IMPLIED
          active IDREFS #IMPLIED
          passive IDREFS #IMPLIED
          mutual (Y | N) "Y">

See further 23.2.2 The Participants Description

Up: 35 Elements