<person>

<person> (person) provides information about an identifiable individual, for example a participant in a language interaction, or a person referred to in a historical source. [13.3.2. The Person Element 15.2.2. The Participant Description]
Modulenamesdates
Attributes
rolespecifies a primary role or classification for the person.
Status Optional
Datatype 1–∞ occurrences of teidata.enumerated separated by whitespace
Note

Values for this attribute may be locally defined by a project, using arbitrary keywords such as artist, employer, author, relative, or servant, each of which should be associated with a definition. Such local definitions will typically be provided by a <valList> element in the project schema specification.

sexspecifies the sex of the person.
Status Optional
Datatype 1–∞ occurrences of teidata.sex separated by whitespace
Note

Values for this attribute may be defined locally by a project, or they may refer to an external standard.

genderspecifies the gender of the person.
Status Optional
Datatype 1–∞ occurrences of teidata.gender separated by whitespace
Note

Values for this attribute may be defined locally by a project, or they may refer to an external standard.

agespecifies an age group for the person.
Status Optional
Datatype teidata.enumerated
Note

Values for this attribute may be locally defined by a project, using arbitrary keywords such as infant, child, teen, adult, or senior, each of which should be associated with a definition. Such local definitions will typically be provided by a <valList> element in the project schema specification.

Member of
model.personLike
Contained by
corpus: particDesc
namesdates: event listPerson org
May contain
analysis: interp interpGrp
certainty: certainty precision
core: bibl biblStruct cb ellipsis gap gb index lb listBibl milestone name note noteGrp p pb ptr
figures: figure notatedMusic
header: biblFull idno
linking: ab anchor join link linkGrp
msdescription: msDesc
namesdates: birth death event floruit gender listEvent persName persPronouns persona state
textcrit: app
transcr: addSpan delSpan fw listTranspose metamark space substJoin
Note

May contain either a prose description organized as paragraphs, or a sequence of more specific demographic elements drawn from the model.personPart class.

Example
<person sex="F" age="adult">
 <p>Female respondent, well-educated, born in Shropshire UK, 12 Jan 1950, of unknown occupation. Speaks French fluently. Socio-Economic
   status B2.</p>
</person>
Example
<person sex="intersex" role="god"
 age="immortal">
 <persName>Hermaphroditos</persName>
 <persName xml:lang="grc">Ἑρμαφρόδιτος</persName>
</person>
Example
<person xml:id="Ovi01" sex="M" role="poet">
 <persName xml:lang="en">Ovid</persName>
 <persName xml:lang="la">Publius Ovidius Naso</persName>
 <birth when="-0044-03-20"> 20 March 43 BC <placeName>
   <settlement type="city">Sulmona</settlement>
   <country key="IT">Italy</country>
  </placeName>
 </birth>
 <death notBefore="0017" notAfter="0018">17 or 18 AD <placeName>
   <settlement type="city">Tomis (Constanta)</settlement>
   <country key="RO">Romania</country>
  </placeName>
 </death>
</person>
Example

The following exemplifies an adaptation of the vCard standard to indicate an unknown gender for a fictional character.

<person xml:id="ariel" gender="U">
 <persName>Ariel</persName>
 <note>Character in <title level="m">The Tempest</title>.</note>
</person>
Content model
<content>
 <alternate>
  <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1"
   maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
  <alternate minOccurs="0"
   maxOccurs="unbounded">
   <classRef key="model.personPart"/>
   <classRef key="model.global"/>
   <elementRef key="ptr"/>
  </alternate>
 </alternate>
</content>
Schema Declaration
element person
{
   tei_att.global.attributes,
   tei_att.editLike.attributes,
   tei_att.sortable.attributes,
   attribute role { list { teidata.enumerated+ } }?,
   attribute sex { list { teidata.sex+ } }?,
   attribute gender { list { teidata.gender+ } }?,
   attribute age { teidata.enumerated }?,
   (
      tei_model.pLike+
    | ( tei_model.personPart | tei_model.global | tei_ptr )*
   )
}