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The term element

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The term element represents a word, or compound word, characterized by its particular use and context.

The addition of a ref attribute establishes a link to a definition. The value of the ref attribute must reference the xml:id of a definition element

Usage Example

<term ref="drw">Darwinism</term>:
<definition xml:id="drw">A theory of biological evolution developed 
  by <name>Charles Darwin</name> and others, stating that all species of 
  organisms arise …</definition>

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, @ref, @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 requirements:
  • The term element must neither be empty nor contain only whitespace.
  • The ref attribute on a term element must resolve to a definition.
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/