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The verse element

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The verse element represents a non-prose passage such as a poem, song, hymn etc., with or without metrical structure.

The verse element consists of one or more lines and may lines may be broken up into division such as stanzas and cantos using the lngroup and section (verse) elements.

Usage Example

<verse>
    <ln>O, never say that I was false of heart</ln>
    …
</verse>

Allowed parents

address, annotation, m:annotation-xml, aside (block variant), aside (toc variant), backcover, block, caption, description, entry (bibliography variant), entry (glossary variant), flaps, frontcover, item, d:longdesc, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), object, sel:otherwise, quote, section, d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, d:summary, td, th, d:tour and sel:when

Allowed children

This element must not contain text.

This element may contain the following children: annotation, h, hd, ln, lngroup, note, pagebreak, section and transition

Content model

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
a choice of
either
first a mix of
• an optional h
• one or more of
any of the 7 elements: annotation, hd, ln, lngroup, note, pagebreak and transition
end of mix
followed by zero or more of section
or
first a mix of
• an optional h
• zero or more of
any of the 7 elements: annotation, hd, ln, lngroup, note, pagebreak and transition
end of mix
followed by one or more of section
end of choice

Namespace

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