The
expansion element represents the fully expanded form of an
abbreviation
.
The
expansion element requires an
xml:id attribute with a unique identifier for linking from the associated abbreviation.
Expansions that are not part of the document content must be placed in the document
head
.
Usage Example
<expansion xml:id="abbr_HMS">His Majesty's Ship</expansion>
Allowed parents
annoref,
annotation (block variant),
annotation (phrase variant),
m:annotation-xml,
aside,
block,
caption,
citation (block variant),
citation (phrase variant),
d,
definition,
description (block variant),
description (phrase variant),
emph,
expansion,
h,
hd,
head,
hpart,
item,
ln,
d:longdesc,
meta,
note (block variant),
note (phrase variant),
noteref,
object (block variant),
object (phrase variant),
p,
ssml:phoneme,
ssml:prosody,
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,
ssml:sub,
d:summary,
td,
term,
th and
d:tour
Allowed children
This element may contain text.
This element may contain the following children: abbr,
annoref,
ssml:break,
char,
code,
d,
definition,
emph (text variant),
emph (phrase variant),
expansion,
rend:linebreak,
ln,
m:math,
name,
note,
noteref,
num,
object (text variant),
object (phrase variant),
pagebreak,
ssml:phoneme (text variant),
ssml:phoneme (phrase variant),
ssml:prosody (text variant),
ssml:prosody (phrase variant),
ref,
its:ruby,
s,
ssml:say-as (text variant),
ssml:say-as (phrase variant),
span (phrase variant),
span (text variant),
sub,
ssml:sub (text variant),
ssml:sub (phrase variant),
sup,
term,
time,
ssml:token (text variant),
ssml:token (phrase variant) 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,
@ssml:onlangfailure,
@typeof,
@xml:base,
@xml:id,
@xml:lang and
@xml:spaceone or more of
a choice of either one of the 42 elements:
abbr,
annoref,
char,
code,
d,
definition,
emph,
emph,
expansion,
its:ruby,
ln,
m:math,
name,
note,
noteref,
num,
object,
object,
pagebreak,
ref,
rend:linebreak,
s,
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 or
wor 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
expansion element must not contain descendant
expansion elements.
- The
expansion 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/