Life dates in profile metadata

Capture life dates in metaItem with about="dates". Capture the start of the life date range in metaDescribes with predicate="birth" as an ISO 8601 date; capture the end of the life date range in metaDescribes with predicate="death" as an ISO 8601 date.

metaItem[@about="dates"]/metaDescribes[@predicate="birth"]
metaItem[@about="dates"]/metaItem[@about="birth"][metaDescribes/@predicate=("isoStart", "isoEnd")]
metaItem[@about="dates"]/metaDescribes[@predicate="death"]
metaItem[@about="dates"]/metaItem[@about="death"][metaDescribes/@predicate=("isoStart", "isoEnd")]

Do not capture start or end dates that are unspecified.

Where the accuracy of a birth date or death date is expressed as a range, capture the range using metaDescribes predicate='isoStart' for the start of the date range and metaDescribes predicate='isoEnd' for the end of the date range.

Life dates for a parent


      <metaItem about="parents">
        <metaItem about="parent"><metaDescribes predicate="gender">m</metaDescribes><metaItem about="name">
 <metaDescribes predicate="type">personal</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="mainName">Lyttelton</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="foreNames">George William</metaDescribes></metaItem><metaItem about="dates">
 <metaDescribes predicate="isoStart">1883-01-06</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="isoEnd">1962-05-01</metaDescribes></metaItem><metaDescribes predicate="occupation">schoolmaster at Eton College</metaDescribes><metaDescribes predicate="type">standard</metaDescribes><metaDescribes predicate="parentID">100007</metaDescribes>
        </metaItem>
        <!-- Other parents... -->
      </metaItem>

Spouses metadata including several life dates


      <metaItem about="spouses">
        <metaItem about="spouse"><metaDescribes predicate="gender">f</metaDescribes><metaItem about="name">
 <metaDescribes predicate="type">personal</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="mainName">Braithwaite</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="foreNames">Patricia Mary</metaDescribes>
 <metaItem about="alternative_name">
   <metaDescribes predicate="alt_type">variant</metaDescribes>
   <metaDescribes predicate="foreNames">Pat</metaDescribes>
 </metaItem>
 <metaItem about="alternative_name">
   <metaDescribes predicate="alt_type">alias</metaDescribes>
   <metaDescribes predicate="mainName">Gaskell</metaDescribes>
 </metaItem></metaItem><metaItem about="birth">
 <metaDescribes predicate="date">1929</metaDescribes></metaItem><metaItem about="relationship_dates">
 <metaDescribes predicate="isoStart">1948-08-19</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="isoEnd">1952</metaDescribes></metaItem><metaDescribes predicate="liaison">marriage</metaDescribes><metaDescribes predicate="type">standard</metaDescribes><metaDescribes predicate="spouseID">100008</metaDescribes>
        </metaItem>
        <metaItem about="spouse"><metaDescribes predicate="gender">f</metaDescribes><metaItem about="name">
 <metaDescribes predicate="type">personal</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="mainName">Richardson</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="foreNames">Elizabeth Jill</metaDescribes>
 <metaItem about="alternative_name">
   <metaDescribes predicate="alt_type">variant</metaDescribes>
   <metaDescribes predicate="foreNames">Jill</metaDescribes>
 </metaItem></metaItem><metaItem about="dates">
 <metaDescribes predicate="isoStart">1933</metaDescribes>
 <metaDescribes predicate="isoEnd">2006</metaDescribes></metaItem><metaItem about="relationship_dates">
 <metaDescribes predicate="isoStart">1952-11-01</metaDescribes></metaItem><metaDescribes predicate="liaison">not marriage</metaDescribes><metaDescribes predicate="type">alternate</metaDescribes><metaDescribes predicate="spouseID">100009</metaDescribes>
        </metaItem>
      </metaItem>

Life dates with accuracy date ranges


      <metaItem about="birth">
        <metaItem about="dates"><metaDescribes predicate="isoStart">1843-08-05</metaDescribes><metaDescribes predicate="isoEnd">1844-08-04</metaDescribes>
        </metaItem>
      </metaItem>
      <metaItem about="death">
        <metaDescribes predicate="date">1888</metaDescribes>
      </metaItem>