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10.1.94. <persona>
<persona> provides information about one of the personalities identified for a given individual, where an individual has multiple personalities. [14.3.2. The Person Element]
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.
sex
specifies the sex of the persona.
Status
Optional
Datatype
1–∞ occurrences ofteidata.sexseparated by whitespace
Note
Values for this attribute may be locally defined by a project, or may refer to an external standard.
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.
Note that a persona is not the same as a role. A role may be assumed by different people on different occasions, whereas a persona is unique to a particular person, even though it may resemble others. Similarly, when an actor takes on or enacts the role of a historical person, they do not thereby acquire a new persona.
Example
<person sex="M" age="adult"><persona sex="M"><persName>Dr Henry Jekyll</persName></persona><persona sex="M" age="youth"><persName>Edward Hyde</persName></persona></person>