Description
This element contains part of a date, and is used in various kinds of citation to identify the month of a meeting or when a publication was published. There are no constraints on the form this information can take, so "03", "3", "March" and "Mar" are all acceptable.
Parent Elements
The elements listed below may directly contain this element. They are "parent" elements. Elements in referenced groups are included, up to two levels of group nesting.
Model Diagram
The DTD model for this element:
--+(choice of TEXT with elements repeated) 
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  |--+(choice) [Formatting in Text]
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  |  |-- sub  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- sup  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- b  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- i  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- smallcaps  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- u  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- box  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- roman  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- script  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- tt  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- strikethrough  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- overline  -- (TEXT and elements)
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  |  |-- newpage  
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  |  |-- query  -- TEXT
DTD Definition
The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):
<!ELEMENT month                          (#PCDATA | %FormattingInText;)*>
<!ATTLIST month
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>
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Defined in DTD section Back Matter : References : Book References
General Attributes (shared with other elements)
Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)