The verse element

Description

Represents a non-prose passage such as a poem, song, hymn etc, with or without metrical structure.

Possible children

This element can not contain text. It may contain the following children: h, hd, l, lgroup, pagebreak, section and separator.

Possible parents

annotation, aside, block, body, caption, item, meta, note, object, sel:otherwise, quote, section, td, th and sel:when

Content model

First	[interleave] A mixture of: [optional] Optional: h [zeroOrMore] Zero or more of: [choice] One of the following elements: hd, l, lgroup, pagebreak and separator
followed by	[zeroOrMore] Zero or more of: section

Namespace

http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2010/

This element belongs to the core grammar.

Attributes

Name	Presence	Description
about	Optional	This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C RDF/a primer. Value: One of • value(s) of type anyURI • value(s) of type string satisfying • the pattern "(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+" • a minimum length of 1
class	Optional	Value: Some value of type NMTOKENS
content	Optional	This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C RDF/a primer. Value: Any string
datatype	Optional	This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C RDF/a primer. Value: Some value of type string satisfying • the pattern "(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+" • a minimum length of 1
depth	Optional	Specifies the nesting depth of this element in relation to ancestor elements with the same name. The outermost ancestor has the implied depth value 0. Value: Some value of type nonNegativeInteger satisfying • the pattern "[0-9]+"
property	Optional	This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C RDF/a primer. Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying • the pattern "(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+" • a minimum length of 1
rel	Optional	This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C RDF/a primer. Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying • the pattern "(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+" • a minimum length of 1
resource	Optional	This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C RDF/a primer. Value: One of • value(s) of type anyURI • value(s) of type string satisfying • the pattern "(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+" • a minimum length of 1
rev	Optional	This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C RDF/a primer. Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying • the pattern "(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+" • a minimum length of 1
role	Optional	The role attribute allows the author to annotate elements with machine-extractable semantic information about the nature or purpose of an element. The value of the role attribute is one or several QNames, which when expanded resolves to a class or property in an RDF vocabulary. The role attribute generates an RDF triple, scoped to the current element. As compared to RDFa, the expression <x role="foo:bar"/> is equivalent to <x xml:id="baz" about="#baz" property="foo:bar"/> The Z39.86 role attribute has been designed to be functionally compatible with the W3C XHTML Role Attribute Module. This module itself does not define a method to assign default prefixes to used QNames; such practice is application specific. Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type QName
typeof	Optional	This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C RDF/a primer. Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying • the pattern "(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+" • a minimum length of 1
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
its:translate	Optional	The its:translate attribute expresses information about whether the content of an element should be translated or not. If not specified, the default value "yes" is assumed. Consult Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) for further information. This attribute belongs to the feature «ITS Ruby» Value: One of • no • yes
rend:rend	Optional	No further information about this attribute is available. This attribute belongs to the feature «Source Rendition» Value: One of • font-style: italic • font-weight: bold • text-decoration: underline
ssml:onlangfailure	Optional	The onlangfailure attribute describes the desired behavior of a synthesis processor upon language speaking failure. The value of this attribute is inherited by descendants. Consult Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 for further information. This attribute belongs to the feature «SSML (Speech Synthesiser Markup Language) Integration» Value: One of • changevoice • ignorelang • ignoretext • processorchoice
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

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