The 
                  char element represents a single instance of a special character or a character with no Unicode equivalent.
                  
               
               The 
                  char element can contain either a single character or a 
                  
                     object
                      tag, for characters and symbols that require special typesetting or display (e.g. ornamented initials at the start of chapters).
                  
               
             
            Usage Example
<section role="chapter">
    <h>Chapter I.</h>
    <p><name><char><object src="init_A.png">A</object></char>lice</name> was beginning 
        to get very tired …</p>
</section>
    Allowed parents
            abbr, 
               d:about, 
               address, 
               annoref, 
               annotation (block variant), 
               annotation (phrase variant), 
               m:annotation-xml, 
               aside (block variant), 
               aside (toc variant), 
               block, 
               caption, 
               citation (block variant), 
               citation (phrase variant), 
               code, 
               d, 
               definition, 
               description (block variant), 
               description (phrase variant), 
               description (text variant), 
               emph (phrase variant), 
               emph (text variant), 
               entry (bibliography variant), 
               entry (glossary variant), 
               entry (index variant), 
               entry (toc variant), 
               expansion, 
               h, 
               hd, 
               hpart, 
               item, 
               ln (code variant), 
               ln (ln variant), 
               lnum, 
               d:longdesc, 
               meta, 
               name, 
               note (block variant), 
               note (phrase variant), 
               noteref, 
               num, 
               object (block variant), 
               object (phrase variant), 
               object (text variant), 
               sel:otherwise, 
               p, 
               ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), 
               ssml:phoneme (text variant), 
               ssml:prosody (phrase variant), 
               ssml:prosody (text variant), 
               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 (phrase variant), 
               span (text variant), 
               sub, 
               ssml:sub (phrase variant), 
               ssml:sub (text variant), 
               d:summary, 
               sup, 
               td, 
               term, 
               th, 
               time, 
               ssml:token (phrase variant), 
               ssml:token (text variant), 
               d:tour, 
               w, 
               sel:when and 
               wpart
               
            
            Allowed children
            This element must not contain text.
            
            This element may contain the following children: object
               
            
            Content model
            
               optional attributes: 
@about, 
                  
@by, 
                  
@class, 
                  
@content, 
                  
@datatype, 
                  
@desc, 
                  
@its:dir, 
                  
@its:translate, 
                  
@property, 
                  
@rel, 
                  
@resource, 
                  
@rev, 
                  
@role, 
                  
@sel:selid, 
                  
@typeof, 
                  
@xml:base, 
                  
@xml:id, 
                  
@xml:lang and 
                  
@xml:space 
               
               a choice of 
                  or 
                     
some data of type 
string compliant with the data type library 
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes
                        
                        length must be 1
                        
                        
                           The 
                              Character datatype
                              :
                           A single character, as per section 2.2 of 
                           
XML.
                           
                           
                        
 
                      
                   end of choice 
             
            Namespace
            http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/