The say-as element

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Description

The say-as element allows the author to indicate information on the type of text construct contained within the element and to help specify the level of detail for rendering the contained text.
Consult Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 for further information.

Possible children

This element may contain text only.

Possible parents

annotation, annotation, m:annotation-xml, aside, block, caption, caption, cite, d, definition, emph, expansion, xforms:group, h, hd, hpart, item, item, l, xforms:label, meta, note, object, sel:otherwise, p, ssml:prosody, quote, quote, its:rb, ref, xforms:repeat, its:rt, s, span, td, th and sel:when

Content model

[text] Text content

Namespace

http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis

This element belongs to the feature «SSML (Speech Synthesiser Markup Language) Integration»

Attributes

Name Presence Description
interpret-as Required No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
class Optional
Value: Some value of type NMTOKENS
detail Optional No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
format Optional No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
its:dir Optional The its:dir attribute is used to specify the base writing direction of the content. If not specified, the default value ltr is assumed.
Consult Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) for further information.
This attribute belongs to the feature «ITS Ruby»
Value:

One of

lro
ltr
rlo
rtl
xml:base Optional
Value: Some value of type anyURI
xml:id Optional
Value: Some value of type ID
xml:lang Optional The xml:lang attribute is used to identify the natural or formal language in which the content is written.
Consult Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 for further information.
Value: Some value of type language
xml:space Optional
Value:

One of

default
preserve

Additional Information