Schema Documentation - DIAGRAM Description Profile
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The summary element

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The summary element contains a shorter, more succinct version of the primary description in the longdesc element.

Usage Example

<d:summary xml:id="summary">
    <p>Figure 1.1, The Hydrologic Cycle, shows the processes involved in the water cycle, 
        including evaporation, formation of clouds, precipitation, condensation, infiltration 
        and the paths taken by the water when it has been returned to the ground.</p>
</d:summary>
    

Allowed parents

d:body

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, annoref, annotation (phrase variant), annotation (block variant), aside, block, ssml:break, caption, char, citation (phrase variant), citation (block variant), code (phrase variant), code (block variant), d, definition, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, hd, rend:linebreak, list, ln, m:math, name, note (phrase variant), note (block variant), noteref, num, object (text variant), object (phrase variant), object (block variant), p, pagebreak, ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), quote (phrase variant), quote (block variant), ref, its:ruby, s, ssml:say-as (text variant), ssml:say-as (phrase variant), span (text variant), span (phrase variant), sub, ssml:sub (text variant), ssml:sub (phrase variant), sup, table, term, time, ssml:token (text variant), ssml:token (phrase variant), verse and w

Content model and additional requirements

a choice of
either one of the 14 elements: annotation, aside, block, caption, citation, code, hd, list, note, object, p, quote, table or verse
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 summary 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/features/description/