Dates of the Balisage conference at which the paper is presented (This element’s content should not be the specific date the paper was presented.)
The conference dates should be tagged as demonstrated below:
<confgroup>
<conftitle>Balisage: The Markup Conference</conftitle>
<confdates>12 - 15 August 2008</confdates>
</confgroup>
where the opening and closing days are separated by spaces and a hyphen, and neither the month nor the year are abbreviated.
Text, numbers, or special characters
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<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0-subset Balisage-1.1"
xml:id="HR-23632987-8973">
<title>Raleigh's Discoveries in the New World</title>
<info>
<confgroup>
<conftitle>Balisage: The Markup Conference</conftitle>
<confdates>12 - 15 August 2008</confdates>
</confgroup>
<abstract>
<para>In 1584, Queen Elizabeth I charged Sir Walter Raleigh to discover and
colonize lands ...</para>
</abstract>
<author>
<personname><firstname>Tonia</firstname>
<othername>Renae</othername>
<surname>Gaillard</surname></personname>
<personblurb>
<para>A native of Lexington, Dr. Gaillard completed her post-graduate studies
in Colonial American History in 1982 ...</para>
...
</personblurb>
<affiliation><jobtitle>Department Chair</jobtitle>
<orgname>University of Kentucky</orgname></affiliation>
<email>tgaillard@uky.hist.edu</email>
</author>
<legalnotice>
<para>Copyright © 2008 Tonia Renae Gaillard. Used by permission.</para>
</legalnotice>
<keywordset role="author">
<keyword>New World discoveries</keyword>
<keyword>American colonial history</keyword>
<keyword>English 16th century history</keyword>
</keywordset>
</info>
<section>...</section>
...
</article>
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