Schema Documentation - DIAGRAM Description Profile
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The simplifiedLanguageDescription element

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The simplifiedLanguageDescription element contains a simplified language version of the primary description in the longdesc element.

Usage Example

<d:simplifiedLanguageDescription xml:id="simpledesc01">
    <p>The image shows the water cycle: how it forms clouds and is returned to the earth as rain, 
        and how it goes into and moves over the earth's surface.</p>
</d:simplifiedLanguageDescription>

Allowed parents

d:body

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, d:about, 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, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @ssml:onlangfailure, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
group
first an optional d:about
followed by 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 requirement:
  • The simplifiedLanguageDescription 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/features/description/