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The term element

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The term element represents a word, or compound word, characterized by its particular use and context.

The addition of a ref attribute establishes a link to a definition. The value of the ref attribute must reference the xml:id of a definition element

Usage Example

<term ref="drw">Darwinism</term>:
<definition xml:id="drw">A theory of biological evolution developed 
  by <name>Charles Darwin</name> and others, stating that all species of 
  organisms arise …</definition>

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, 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, @ref, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @ssml:onlangfailure, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
optionally the following 2 co-ocurring attributes: @ssml:alphabet and @ssml:ph
one 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 w
or 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 term element must neither be empty nor contain only whitespace.
  • The ref attribute on a term element must resolve to a definition.
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/