| type | categorizes the relationship in some respect, e.g.
as social, personal or other. |
| Datatype: CDATA |
| Legal values: | | social | relationship concerned with social roles | | personal | relationship concerned with personal roles, e.g.
kinship, marriage, etc. | | other | other kinds of relationship |
|
| Default: personal |
| desc | briefly describes the relationship. |
| Datatype: CDATA |
| Values: an open list of application-dependent keywords |
| Default: #IMPLIED |
| active | identifies the ``active''participants in a non-mutual
relationship, or all the participants in a mutual one. |
| Datatype: IDREFS |
| Values: a list of identifier values for participant or participant
groups |
| Default: #IMPLIED |
| passive | identifies the ``passive'' participants in a non-mutual
relationship. |
| Datatype: IDREFS |
| Values: a list of identifier values for participant or participant
groups |
| Default: #IMPLIED |
| mutual | indicates whether the relationship holds equally amongst all the
participants. |
| Datatype: (Y | N) |
| Legal values: | | Y | the relationship is mutual | | N | the relationship is directed |
|
| Default: Y |