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.
Allowed parents
abbr,
d:about,
address,
annoref,
annotation (block variant),
annotation (phrase variant),
block,
byline,
caption,
citation (block variant),
citation (phrase variant),
code,
dateline,
definition,
description (block variant),
description (phrase variant),
description (text variant),
emph (phrase variant),
emph (text variant),
expansion,
h,
hd,
item,
ln (ln variant),
ln (code variant),
lnum,
d:longdesc,
meta,
name,
num,
object (block variant),
object (phrase variant),
object (text variant),
p,
quote (block variant),
quote (phrase variant),
its:rb,
ref,
its:rt,
s,
d:simplifiedLanguageDescription,
span (phrase variant),
span (text variant),
sub,
d:summary,
sup,
td,
term,
th,
time,
d:tour,
w and
wpart
Allowed children
This element may contain text.
This element may contain the following children: emph,
object,
its:ruby,
span,
sub and
sup
Content model and additional requirements
optional attributes:
@about,
@by,
@class,
@content,
@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
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 phrase variant.
Namespace
http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/