What Syd says. It does seem like a stretch, but the examples of @dur on <date> (given in the description of data.duration.w3c) seem clearly to do what you want: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-data.duration.w3c.html Dot On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Syd Bauman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think the Guidelines license encoding durations as either <date> or > <time> using the dur= (or dur-iso=) attribute. > > <p>For a very dear son, <date dur="P6Y2M19DT10H">VI years, II > months, XIX days, X hours</date></p> > >> There must be something better than this, no? > > Well, I'm not sure it's *better*, but ... > -- ******************************* Dot Porter, MA, MSLS Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA) Pembroke House 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 Email: [log in to unmask] http://dho.ie *******************************