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The phrase variant of the emph element

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The emph element represents an author's emphasis.

Emphasis is not restricted to italicized text, but may constitute any of a variety of typographical or styling means used to distinguish text, such as bolding, underlining, coloring, etc.

Nested emph elements indicate extra emphasized segments within an emphasized segment.

Usage Example

it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, 
under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better 
chance of surviving, and thus be <emph>naturally selected</emph>.

Allowed parents

address, annoref, annotation (block variant), annotation (phrase variant), block, byline, caption, citation (block variant), citation (phrase variant), dateline, definition, description (block variant), description (phrase variant), emph, expansion, h, hd, item, ln, d:longdesc, meta, object (block variant), object (phrase variant), p, quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), its:rb, ref, its:rt, s, d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, span, d:summary, td, term, th and d:tour

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, address, annoref, code, definition, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, ln, name, num, object (text variant), object (phrase variant), ref, its:ruby, s, span (phrase variant), span (text variant), sub, sup, term, time 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, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
one or more of
a choice of
either one of the 24 elements: abbr, address, annoref, code, definition, emph, emph, expansion, its:ruby, ln, name, num, object, object, ref, s, span, span, sub, sup, term, time, w or w
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 emph 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 2 variants. The other variant is the text variant.

Namespace

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