Schema Documentation - Generic Document Profile
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The w element

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The w element represents a single, possibly compound, lexical word.

The role attribute optionally expresses the semantic nature of the word. No implicit value is associated with the w element.

Usage Example

<w>This</w> <w>Abstract</w>, <w>which</w> <w>I</w> <w>now</w> <w>publish</w>

Allowed parents

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), d, definition, description (block variant), description (phrase variant), emph, entry (bibliography variant), entry (glossary variant), entry (index variant), entry (toc variant), expansion, xforms:group, h, hd, hpart, item, xforms:label, ln, d:longdesc, meta, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), noteref, object (block variant), object (phrase variant), sel:otherwise, p, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), its:rb, ref, xforms:repeat, its:rt, s, ssml:say-as (phrase variant), ssml:say-as (text variant), d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, span, ssml:sub, d:summary, td, term, th, d:tour and sel:when

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: ssml:break, char, emph, object, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, its:ruby, ssml:say-as, span, sub, ssml:sub, sup, ssml:token and wpart

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
optionally the following 2 co-ocurring attributes: @ssml:alphabet and @ssml:ph
one or more of
a choice of
either one of the 14 elements: char, emph, its:ruby, object, span, ssml:break, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, ssml:say-as, ssml:sub, ssml:token, sub, sup or wpart
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 word 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/