Surname

Surname

MADS Element: name

Element Definition

Used for personal, corporate, event, conference, or family names

AILLA Definition

A list of all surnames or last names of a person; Latin American surnames with two parts should be given in this order: paternal surname followed by maternal surname.

Form option

Text

Repeatable

No

Form Required?

Required

AILLA Required?

Required

Subelement/Attribute Name

Definition/Description

Examples

XPath Syntax

Dublin Core

Type

Defines the type of name as personal

"Personal" is auto-generated in Persons database

personal

mads:name[@type="personal"]

to be added

Name part

Subelement

Used for separating out different parts of names (ie. family or given)

 

mads:name/mads:namePart

to be added

Type

Defines the name part as the last name of the person

family

mads:namePart[@type="family"]

to be added

XML

<name type="personal">

    <namePart type="family">Zavala Maldonado</namePart>

</name>