<edition> Edition

<edition> designates the version of the finding aid. It may be used within <editionstmt> in <control>.

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.
  • @localtype – not required. This attribute may be used within a number of elements. Its use and values are not defined by the schema and may be defined locally.
  • @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

<edition> generally contains text and may contain: <abbr>, <emph>, <expan>, <foreign>, <lb />, <ptr/>, and <ref>.

Examples

<editionstmt>
	<edition>2nd edition</edition>
	<p>Edition was updated during EAD3 encoding to conform to DACS standards.</p>
</editionstmt>

Changes from EAD 2002

<edition> gained @lang, @localtype, and @script attributes. It lost the deprecated <extptr> child element and gained, <abbr>, <expan>, <foreign> and <ref>. Its use has been restricted to <editionstmt>.

EAD3 Tag Library Entry

View the official tag library entry for <edition>