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The lnum element

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The lnum element represents the line number of the parent ln .

Line numbers are a common convention in poetic works, legal texts and programming code.

Usage Example

<ln><lnum>1</lnum>Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit</ln>

Allowed parents

ln (code variant) and ln (ln variant)

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: ssml:break, char, emph, object, pagebreak, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, its:ruby, ssml:say-as, span, sub, ssml:sub, sup and ssml:token

Content model and additional requirements

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @datatype, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @sel:selid, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
optionally the following 2 co-ocurring attributes: @ssml:alphabet and @ssml:ph
one or more of
a choice of
either one of the 14 elements: char, emph, its:ruby, object, pagebreak, span, ssml:break, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, ssml:say-as, ssml:sub, ssml:token, sub or sup
or text
end of choice
Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above, use of this element must also respect the following requirement:
  • The lnum element must neither be empty nor contain only whitespace.
Such requirements take precedence over any conflicting statements in the content model or in the lists above of allowed children and parents.

Namespace

http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/