Schema Documentation - Generic Document Profile
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The head element

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The head element contains meta information about the complete or partial document contained in the enclosing document .

The meta information in the head element is not document content in the context of Z39.98-AI documents, but may be used for display and other purposes when rendering documents into alternate formats.

Refer to Document metadata for the normative specification of required metadata in head.

Usage Example

        
<head>
    <meta rel="z3998:profile" resource="http://www.daisy.org/z3998/2012/auth/profiles/book/1.0">
        <meta property="z3998:name" content="book" />
        <meta property="z3998:version" content="1.0" />
    </meta>
    <meta rel="z3998:rdfa-context" resource="http://www.daisy.org/z3998/2012/vocab/context/default/" />
    <meta property="dc:identifier" content="int.daisy.book.12345" />
    <meta property="dc:publisher" content="DAISY Consortium" />
    <meta property="dc:date" content="2012-07-27T18:50:05Z" />
</head>        
    

Allowed parents

document

Allowed children

This element must not contain text.

This element may contain the following children: definition, description, expansion, ssml:lexicon, meta and xforms:model

Content model and additional requirements

one or more of
Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above, use of this element must also respect the following requirements:
  • The head element must include a meta element identifying the Z39.98-AI profile the document conforms to (z3998:profile).
  • The document must not include more than one meta element identifying a Z39.98-AI profile.
  • A meta element containing the profile name must be specified (z3998:name).
  • A meta element containing the profile version must be specified (z3998:version).
  • Every feature must have its name specified (z3998:name).
  • Every feature must have its version specified (z3998:version).
  • The head element must include a meta element with a unique identifier (dc:identifier).
  • The head element must include a meta element identifying the document publisher (dc:publisher).
  • The head element must include a meta element indicating the document modification date (dc:date).
  • The head element must include only a single dc:date property.
  • The dc:date property must be of the form CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
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/