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The block variant of the note element

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The note element represents a single footnote or endnote.

The Block variant is an adaptation for use including notes between block elements.

Notes provide or reference sources of additional information, or acknowledge the source of a quotation or idea. In printed matter, they are usually distinguishable from annotations by their location either at the bottom of print pages, at the end of sections or in the back matter of a document.

Each note is typically referenced by a noteref or prefixed by a page location (when explicit references have been omitted from the text). If the note does not have a referent in a Z39.98-AI document, it must include a ref attribute that references back to the nearest element in the document to the content to which it applies.

The role attribute optionally expresses the semantic nature of the note. The value can be either footnote or endnote. If omitted, the implicit value footnote is assumed.

When a note is prefixed by a number or symbol, that identifier should be included using the Content Rendition feature's prefix attribute.

Usage Example

<p>THE following pages contain Extracts from LETTERS addressed 
    to Professor HENSLOW<noteref ref="n2" value="2" /> by C. DARWIN, Esq. … </p>
…  
<note xml:id="n2">
    <p>John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), Cambridge clergyman, botanist and mineralogist. 
        He became Darwin's scientific mentor when at Cambridge and received and 
        preserved Darwin's Beagle specimens during the voyage.</p> 
</note>

Allowed parents

annotation, m:annotation-xml, aside, block, caption, description, item, d:longdesc, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), object, quote, section, d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, d:summary, td, th and d:tour

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, annoref, annotation (block variant), annotation (phrase variant), aside, block, ssml:break, caption, char, citation (block variant), citation (phrase variant), code (block variant), code (phrase variant), d, definition, description, d:description, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, hd, rend:linebreak, list, ln, m:math, name, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), noteref, num, object (block variant), object (text variant), object (phrase variant), p, pagebreak, ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), ref, its:ruby, s, ssml:say-as (text variant), ssml:say-as (phrase variant), span (text variant), span (phrase variant), sub, ssml:sub (text variant), ssml:sub (phrase variant), sup, table, term, time, ssml:token (text variant), ssml:token (phrase variant), verse and w

Content model and additional requirements

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @continuation, @datatype, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @ref, @rel, @rend:prefix, @resource, @rev, @role, @ssml:onlangfailure, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
a choice of
either one or more of
any of the 19 elements: annotation, aside, block, caption, citation, code, d:description, description, hd, list, m:math, note, object, p, pagebreak, quote, ssml:break, table and verse
or one or more of
a choice of
either one of the 45 elements: abbr, annoref, annotation, char, citation, code, d, definition, emph, emph, expansion, its:ruby, ln, m:math, name, note, noteref, num, object, object, pagebreak, quote, ref, rend:linebreak, s, span, span, ssml:break, ssml:break, ssml:phoneme, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, ssml:prosody, ssml:say-as, ssml:say-as, ssml:sub, ssml:sub, ssml:token, ssml:token, sub, sup, term, time, w or w
or text
end of choice
end of choice
Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above, use of this element must also respect the following requirements:
  • The note element must either be referenced by a noteref or reference another element in the document.
  • The note 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.

Variants

This element exists in 2 variants. The other variant is the phrase variant.

Namespace

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