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The char element

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The char element represents a single instance of a special character or a character with no Unicode equivalent.

The char element can contain either a single character or a object tag, for characters and symbols that require special typesetting or display (e.g. ornamented initials at the start of chapters).

Usage Example

<section role="chapter">
    <h>Chapter I.</h>
    <p><name><char><object src="init_A.png">A</object></char>lice</name> was beginning 
        to get very tired …</p>
</section>
    

Allowed parents

abbr, d:about, 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), code, d, definition, description (block variant), description (phrase variant), description (text variant), emph (phrase variant), emph (text variant), entry (toc variant), entry (index variant), entry (bibliography variant), entry (glossary variant), expansion, h, hd, hpart, item, ln (code variant), ln (ln variant), lnum, d:longdesc, meta, name, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), noteref, num, object (block variant), object (phrase variant), object (text variant), sel:otherwise, p, ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), its:rb, ref, its:rt, s, ssml:say-as (phrase variant), ssml:say-as (text variant), d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, span (phrase variant), span (text variant), spine, sub, ssml:sub (phrase variant), ssml:sub (text variant), d:summary, sup, td, term, th, time, ssml:token (phrase variant), ssml:token (text variant), d:tour, w, sel:when and wpart

Allowed children

This element must not contain text.

This element may contain the following children: object

Content model

optionally the following 2 co-ocurring attributes: @ssml:alphabet and @ssml:ph
a choice of
either object
or
some data of type string compliant with the data type library http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes
length must be 1
The Character datatype : A single character, as per section 2.2 of XML.
end of choice

Namespace

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