<string-name> Name of Person (Unstructured)

Container element for personal names captured with mixed-content where the order of the name components is not enforced.

Usage/Remarks

This is a very loose element, which may contain text, numbers, special characters, generated text, and any or all of the naming elements, such as <surname>.
If the name parts are unknown or untagged, put the whole name within the <string-name> element, for example, “<string-name>Ice Cube</string-name>”. Use of the <string-name> element is more likely to lead to better searching in a repository than merely leaving the person’s name untagged.
Attributes
name-style (default = western)

Base Attributes

Models and Context
May be contained in
Description
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  string-name  (#PCDATA %string-name-elements;)*            >
Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | degrees | given-names | prefix | surname | suffix)*

Tagged Samples
As part of bibliographic reference for journal
...
<ref-list>
 <title>Bibliography</title>
 ...
 <ref id="ref_4">
  <label>4</label>
  <mixed-citation publication-type="journal"
   ><person-group
    ><string-name><surname>Hadorn</surname>,  
     <given-names>H.</given-names></string-name>, 
    <string-name><surname>Z&uuml;rchner</surname>,  
     <given-names>K</given-names></string-name></person-group>. 
   <source>Dtsch. Lebensmitt. Rundsch</source>. 
   <year iso-8601-date="1974">1974</year>, 
   <volume>70</volume> p. <fpage>57</fpage></mixed-citation>
 </ref>
 ...
</ref-list>
...
Bibliographic reference for conference paper
...
<ref>
 <label>...</label>
 <mixed-citation publication-type="paper"
  ><person-group
   ><string-name><surname>Kowitz</surname> 
    <given-names>G.T.</given-names></string-name> 
   <etal>et al.</etal></person-group> 
  <article-title>From ERIC source documents to abstracts:  
   A problem in readability</article-title> Presented at the 
  <conf-name>Rocky Mountain Education Research 
   Association</conf-name>, <conf-loc>Tucson, AZ</conf-loc>,
  <conf-date iso-8601-date="1973-11-29">November 29, 1973</conf-date>. 
  <pub-id>ED0086243</pub-id>.</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
As part of bibliographic reference for report
...
<ref>
 <label>...</label>
 <mixed-citation publication-type="report"
  ><person-group
   ><string-name><given-names>David</given-names>  
    <surname>Bearman</surname></string-name></person-group>. 
  <source>NISO/CLIR/RLG Technical Metadata for 
   Images Workshop, April 18-19, 1999</source> [Report]. 
  <publisher-loc>Bethesda, MD</publisher-loc>: 
  <publisher-name>National Information Standards 
   Organization</publisher-name>; 
  c<date-in-citation content-type="copyright" 
     iso-8601-date="1999">1999</date-in-citation></mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
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