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The braille element

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The braille element contains an alternative braille representation. It may contain preformatted braille text, or embed a format such as PEF.

Usage Example

<d:tactile xml:id="tactile01">
    <d:braille>
        <pef xmlns="http://www.daisy.org/ns/2008/pef" version="2008-1">
            <head>...</head>
            <body>
                <volume cols="23" rows="12" rowgap="0" duplex="true">
                    <section>
                        <page>
                            <row>...</row>
                        </page>
                    </section>
                </volume>
            </body>
        </pef>
    </d:braille>
</d:tactile>

Allowed parents

d:tactile

Allowed children

This element may contain text or any elements.

Content model and additional requirements

optional attributes: @about, @brlFormat, @by, @class, @content, @continuation, @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
zero or more of
a choice of
either any element
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 braille 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/