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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 ...
>



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