att.naming

att.naming provides attributes common to elements which refer to named persons, places, organizations etc. 3.5.1 Referring Strings 13.3.5 Names and Nyms
Module tei — 1 The TEI Infrastructure
Members att.personal [addName forename genName orgName persName roleName surname] affiliation birth bloc climate collection country death district education event geogFeat geogName institution name nationality occupation origPlace placeName population pubPlace region relation repository residence rs settlement socecStatus state terrain trait
Attributes att.canonical (@key, @ref)
nymRef (reference to the canonical name) provides a means of locating the canonical form (nym) of the names associated with the object named by the element bearing it.
Status Optional
Datatype 1–∞ occurrences of  

<rng:ref name="data.pointer"/>
data.pointer
separated by whitespace
Values any valid URI
Note
The value must point directly to one or more XML elements by means of one or more URIs, separated by whitespace. If more than one is supplied, the implication is that the name is associated with several distinct canonical names.