The meta element

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Description

The meta element is used to describe properties of a document or a document fragment.

Possible children

This element may contain text. It may contain the following children: abbr, annotation, caption, code, date, emph, expansion, identifier, l, meta, name, object, place, quote, reference, its:ruby, span, sub, sup, term and w.

Possible parents

head, head and meta

Content model

choice
[zeroOrMore] Zero or more of:
[oneOrMore] At least one or more of:

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
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
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:

One of

• A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying
• the pattern "(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+"
• a minimum length of 1
destEdition
destPublication
positionPage
positionSection
positionSequence
revision
sourceEdition
sourcePublication
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
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
xml:id Optional The xml:id attribute specifies a document-wide unique identifier of the element.
Consult xml:id Version 1.0 for further information.
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

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