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The s element

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The s element represents a grammatical and/or lexical sentence.

Usage Example

<p>
    <s>No one ought to feel surprise at much remaining as yet 
        unexplained in regard to the origin of species and varieties, 
        if he makes due allowance for our profound ignorance in regard 
        to the mutual relations of all the beings which live around us.</s>
    <s>Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very 
        numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare?</s>
</p>

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, annotation, citation, code, definition, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, ln, name, num, object (text variant), object (phrase variant), quote, ref, its:ruby, s, span (text variant), span (phrase 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 27 elements: abbr, address, annoref, annotation, citation, code, definition, emph, emph, expansion, its:ruby, ln, name, num, object, object, quote, 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 requirements:
  • The s element must not contain descendant s elements.
  • The s 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/