Schema Documentation - Generic Document Profile
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The block variant of the aside element

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The aside element represents information supplementary to the main text and/or narrative flow.

The Block variant is an adaptation for use with asides that contain unstructured content.

An aside typically floats separate from the main text, often in a boxed or shaded region.

The role attribute optionally expresses the semantic nature of the aside.

Usage Example

<aside role="sidebar">
    <hd>Quail Island</hd>
    <p>Quail Island is located …</p>
    <p>Darwin's travels would have brought him to the island …</p>
</aside>

Allowed parents

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

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, address (block variant), address (phrase variant), 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, xforms:group, hd, xforms:input, 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), xforms:range, ref, xforms:repeat, its:ruby, s, ssml:say-as (text variant), ssml:say-as (phrase variant), xforms:secret, sel:select (Block variant), sel:select (Phrase variant), xforms:select, xforms:select1, span (text variant), span (phrase variant), sub, ssml:sub (text variant), ssml:sub (phrase variant), sup, table, term, xforms:textarea, time, ssml:token (text variant), ssml:token (phrase variant), transition, verse and w

Content model and additional requirements

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @datatype, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @sel:selid, @ssml:onlangfailure, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
a choice of
either one or more of
any of the 24 elements: address, annotation, aside, block, caption, citation, code, d:description, description, hd, list, m:math, note, object, p, pagebreak, quote, sel:select, ssml:break, table, transition, verse, xforms:group and xforms:repeat
or one or more of
a choice of
either one of the 53 elements: abbr, address, 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, sel:select, 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, w, xforms:input, xforms:range, xforms:secret, xforms:select, xforms:select1 or xforms:textarea
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 aside 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 3 variants. The other 2 variants are:

Namespace

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