Schema Documentation - Book Profile
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The spine element

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The spine element represents the section of the cover that overlays the bound inner side of a publication.

The spine typically contains the author/editor name(s), title and the publisher/imprint logo. Information on the spine is often truncated because of space constraints.

Usage Example

<cover>
    <spine>
        <block>
            <ln>On the Origin of Species</ln>
            <ln><name>Darwin</name>.</ln>
        </block>
        <block role="imprint">
            <ln>
                <name role="place">London</name>
            </ln>
            <ln>
                <name>John Murray</name>
            </ln>
        </block>
    </spine>
    …
</cover>

Allowed parents

cover

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, address, annoref, annotation, block, ssml:break, char, citation, code, d, definition, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, hd, xforms:input, rend:linebreak, ln, m:math, name, note, noteref, num, object (block variant), object (text variant), object (phrase variant), p, ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), quote, xforms:range, ref, its:ruby, s, ssml:say-as (text variant), ssml:say-as (phrase variant), xforms:secret, sel:select, xforms:select, xforms:select1, span (text variant), span (phrase variant), sub, ssml:sub (text variant), ssml:sub (phrase variant), sup, term, xforms:textarea, time, ssml:token (text variant), ssml:token (phrase variant), transition and w

Content model and additional requirements

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @datatype, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @sel:selid, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
a choice of
either one or more of
any of the 5 elements: block, hd, object, p and transition
or one or more of
a choice of
either one of the 52 elements: abbr, address, annoref, annotation, char, citation, code, d, definition, emph, emph, expansion, its:ruby, ln, m:math, name, note, noteref, num, object, object, quote, ref, rend:linebreak, s, sel:select, span, span, ssml:break, ssml:break, ssml:phoneme, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, ssml:prosody, ssml:say-as, ssml:say-as, ssml:sub, ssml:sub, ssml:token, ssml:token, sub, sup, term, time, w, w, xforms:input, xforms:range, xforms:secret, xforms:select, xforms:select1 or xforms:textarea
or text
end of choice
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 spine 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/