<p> is an element that encodes a paragraph within a larger element. It is only required within <descriptivenote>.
<p> may be used within <accessrestrict>, <accruals>, <acqinfo>, <altformavail>, <appraisal>, <arrangement>, <bibliography>, <bioghist>, <blockquote>, <controlaccess>, <controlnote>, <custodhist>, <descriptivenote>, <dsc>, <editionstmt>, <fileplan>, <footnote>, <index>, <legalstatus>, <odd>, <originalsloc>, <otherfindaid>, <phystech>, <prefercite>, <processinfo>, <publicationstmt>, <relatedmaterial>, <scopecontent>, <separatedmaterial>, <seriesstmt>, and <userestrict>.
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.”
- @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
<p> may contain text as well as <abbr>, <corpname>, <date>, <emph>, <expan>, <famname>, <footnote>, <foreign>, <function>, <genreform>, <geogname>, <lb />, <list>, <name>, <num>, <occupation>, <persname>, <ptr/>, <quote>, <ref>, <subject>, and <title>.
Examples
<editionstmt> <edition>2nd edition</edition> <p>Edition was updated during EAD3 encoding to conform to DACS standards.</p> </editionstmt> |
<conventiondeclaration> <abbr>DACS</abbr> <citation href="https://saa-ts-dacs.github.io/dacs/" lastdatetimeverified="2020-06-09T16:30:21Z" linktitle="DACS in HTML on GitHub" actuate="onload" show="new">Describing Archives: a Content Standard</citation> <descriptivenote> <p>This finding aid conforms to the University Archives' standards for DACS-compliant description, including all Required and Optimum fields.</p> </descriptivenote> </conventiondeclaration> |
<accruals> <head>Accruals</head> <p>The department minutes for each school year are acquired in June, following the conclusion of Maymester.</p> </accruals> |
Changes from EAD 2002
<p> gained attributes @lang and @script. Its use remained the same, while parent and child elements changed slightly.