<editionstmt> is an optional wrapper child element within <filedesc>. It is used to group information about the finding aid edition within an <edition> element and may contain <p> elements for narrative statements.
Attributes
- @altrender – not required. Use if the content of the element should be displayed or printed differently than the rendering established in a style sheet for other occurrences of the element.
- @audience – not required. Use to set whether the element’s contents will be visible to external users or to internal ones. Possible values are: “internal” and “external.”
- @encodinganalog – not required. May contain information to map this tag to a particular element in another schema.
- @id – not required. Creates an ID for element. Can be used for linking.
- @lang – not required. Three-letter code that indicates the language in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 639-2b.
- @script – not required. Four-letter code that indicates the script in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 15924.
Child Elements
<editionstmt> must contain at least one of <edition> or <p>. It may contain both. They may be used multiple times and in any order.
Adjacent Elements
<editionstmt> must be preceded by <titlestmt> and may be followed by optional <publicationstmt>, <seriesstmt>, and <notestmt> in that order.
Examples
<editionstmt> <edition>2nd edition</edition> <p>Edition was updated during EAD3 encoding to conform to DACS standards.</p> </editionstmt> |
Changes from EAD 2002
<editionstmt> gained @lang and @script elements.