`<relation>` | (relationship) describes any kind of relationship or linkage amongst a specified group of participants.

Attributes:

`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

Example

      <relation type=social desc="supervisor"
           active=P1 passive="P2 P3 P4" mutual=N>

Example

      <relation type=personal desc="friends"
           active="P2 P3 P4" mutual=Y>

Note
Tagset auxiliary tag set for corpora and collections
Class
Filename `teicorp2`
Content: Empty
Parents particLinks
Children[none]
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT relation      - O  EMPTY                              >
    <!ATTLIST relation           %a.global
              type               CDATA               personal
              desc               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              active             IDREFS              #IMPLIED
              passive            IDREFS              #IMPLIED
              mutual             (Y | N)             Y              >

See 23.2.2

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