Schema Documentation - DIAGRAM Description Profile
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The break element

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Controls the pausing or other prosodic boundaries between tokens.

Refer to SSML 1.1 for further information.

Usage Example

<p>… </p>
<transition />
<ssml:break strength="strong" />        
<p>…</p>
    
<p>…</p>
<transition />
<ssml:break time="2s" />
<p>…</p>
    

Allowed parents

abbr, d:about, annoref, annotation (block variant), annotation (phrase variant), m:annotation-xml, aside, block, caption, citation (block variant), citation (phrase variant), code, d, definition, description, emph (phrase variant), emph (text variant), expansion, h, hd, hpart, item, ln (code variant), ln (ln variant), lnum, d:longdesc, meta, name, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), noteref, num, object, p, ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), its:rb, ref, its:rt, s, ssml:say-as (phrase variant), ssml:say-as (text variant), section, d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, span (phrase variant), span (text variant), sub, ssml:sub (phrase variant), ssml:sub (text variant), d:summary, sup, td, term, th, time, ssml:token (phrase variant), ssml:token (text variant), d:tour, w and wpart

Allowed children

This element is empty

Content model

optional attributes: @strength, @time and @xml:id
This element is empty

Namespace

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