Alternative names in profile metadata

Capture each alternative name in a metaItem with about="alternative_name" within the associated primary name.

metaItem[@about="name"]/metaItem[@about="alternative_name"]
metaItem[@about="alternative_name"]/metaDescribes[@predicate="alt_type"]

Capture the type of alternative name in metaDescribes with predicate="alt_type". The type must have one of the following values:

afterwards
alias
also known as
called
formerly known as
formerly married name
formerly
known as
afterwards known as
later married name
first married name
second married name
third married name
married name
née
nicknamed
other married name
pseud.
real name
name in religion
performing name
variant

Capture the components of the alternative name in the same way as for other names

Personal name including an alternative forename


      <metaItem about="name">
        <metaDescribes predicate="type">personal</metaDescribes>
        <metaDescribes predicate="mainName">Lyttelton</metaDescribes>
        <metaDescribes predicate="foreNames">Humphrey Richard Adeane</metaDescribes>
        <metaItem about="alternative_name"><metaDescribes predicate="alt_type">variant</metaDescribes><metaDescribes predicate="foreNames">Humph</metaDescribes>
        </metaItem>
      </metaItem>

Spouse metadata including several alternative names


      <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>