<string-name>

Container element for personal names captured with mixed-content where the order of the name components is not enforced.

<!ELEMENT  string-name  (#PCDATA %string-name-elements;)*            >

...
<string-name name-style="western">
<given-names>Y.</given-names> <surname>Song</surname>
</string-name>
...

Used to provide alternative names:

...
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Chu</surname>
<given-names>J. H.</given-names></name>
<string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">褚君浩</string-name>
</name-alternatives>
...

...
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Y. P.</given-names></name>
<string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">张轶泼</string-name>
</name-alternatives>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a1">1</xref>
<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="n1">a)</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Isobe</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names></name>
<string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">磯部光孝</string-name>
</name-alternatives>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a2">2</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Yi</given-names></name>
<string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">刘仪</string-name>
</name-alternatives>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a1">1</xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="a1">...</aff>
<aff id="a2">...</aff>
<author-notes id="n1">...</author-notes>
...
</article-meta>
...

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):

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<ref id="B6">
<label>6</label>
<element-citation>
<string-name><surname>DerSimonian</surname>,
<given-names>R</given-names></string-name>
<string-name><surname>Laird</surname>,
<given-names>N</given-names></string-name>
<article-title>Meta-analysis in clinical trials</article-title>
<source>Controlled Clin Trials</source>
<volume>7</volume>
<year iso-8601-date="1986">1986</year>
<fpage>177</fpage>
<lpage>188</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">3802833</pub-id>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):

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<ref id="B6">
<label>6</label>
<mixed-citation>
<string-name><surname>DerSimonian</surname>,
<given-names>R</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Laird</surname>,
<given-names>N</given-names></string-name>.
<article-title>Meta-analysis in clinical trials</article-title>.
<source>Controlled Clin Trials</source>:
<volume>7</volume>; <year iso-8601-date="1986">1986</year>;
<fpage>177</fpage>-<lpage>188</lpage> [
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">3802833</pub-id>].
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...