Schema Documentation - DIAGRAM Description Profile
version 1.0

The phrase variant of the say-as element

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Provides information on the type of text construct contained within the element to help specify the level of detail for rendering the contained text.

Refer to SSML 1.1 for further information.

Usage Example

<h>CHAPTER <ssml:say-as interpret-as="ordinal">V</ssml:say-as>. LAWS OF VARIATION.</h>

Allowed parents

annoref, annotation (block variant), annotation (phrase variant), m:annotation-xml, aside, block, caption, citation (block variant), citation (phrase variant), d, definition, emph, expansion, h, hd, hpart, item, ln, d:longdesc, meta, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), noteref, p, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), its:rb, ref, its:rt, s, ssml:say-as (phrase variant), ssml:say-as (text variant), d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, span, ssml:sub, d:summary, td, term, th and d:tour

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, annoref, annotation, ssml:break, char, citation, code, d, definition, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, rend:linebreak, ln, m:math, name, note, noteref, num, object (text variant), object (phrase variant), pagebreak, ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), quote, 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, term, time, ssml:token (text variant), ssml:token (phrase variant) and w

Content model and additional requirements

required attributes: @interpret-as
optional attributes: @class, @detail, @format, @its:dir, @its:translate, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
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
Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above, use of this element must also respect the following requirement:
  • The ssml:say-as 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 text variant.

Namespace

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