date

date — The date of publication or revision of a document.

Synopsis

date ::=

  • One of:
    • A date value.
    • A dateTime value.
    • A gYearMonth value.
    • A gYear value.
    • text

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional attributes.

Additional Constraints

  • If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.

Description

The date element identifies a date.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

DocBook does not specify the format of the date.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain date: abbrev, acronym, address, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, biblioentry, biblioid, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, biblioset, bibliosource, bridgehead, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, fax, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), givenname, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), inlinestagedir, issuenum, jobtitle, label, line, lineage, link, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, optional, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, primary, productname, productnumber, publishername, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, revision, revnumber, revremark, secondary, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, shortaffil, simpara, state, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, templatename, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev, trademark, uri, volumenum, wordasword, year.

See Also

Related elements: edition, printhistory, pubdate, releaseinfo, revhistory.