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Phrase

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Phrase -- Span of text

Content Model

  (#PCDATA | FootnoteRef | XRef | Abbrev | Acronym | Citation
  | CiteRefEntry | CiteTitle | Emphasis | FirstTerm
  | ForeignPhrase | GlossTerm | Footnote | Phrase | Quote
  | Trademark | WordAsWord | Link | OLink | ULink | Action
  | Application | ClassName | Command | ComputerOutput
  | Database | Email | EnVar | ErrorCode | ErrorName
  | ErrorType | Filename | Function | GUIButton | GUIIcon
  | GUILabel | GUIMenu | GUIMenuItem | GUISubmenu | Hardware
  | Interface | InterfaceDefinition | KeyCap | KeyCode
  | KeyCombo | KeySym | Literal | Markup | MediaLabel
  | MenuChoice | MouseButton | MsgText | Option | Optional
  | Parameter | Prompt | Property | Replaceable | ReturnValue
  | SGMLTag | StructField | StructName | Symbol | SystemItem
  | Token | Type | UserInput | Anchor | Author | AuthorInitials
  | CorpAuthor | ModeSpec | OtherCredit | ProductName
  | ProductNumber | RevHistory | Comment | Subscript
  | Superscript | InlineGraphic | InlineEquation | Synopsis
  | CmdSynopsis
  | FuncSynopsis)+

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Tag Minimization

Both the start- and end-tags are required for this element.

Description

Phrase marks a span of text, without semantic implications. It has common attributes.

Usage

Use Phrase to apply attribute values to groups of words such as changed text.

Parents

These elements contain Phrase: Application, Attribution, BiblioMisc, BridgeHead, Citation, CiteTitle, Comment, Emphasis, ForeignPhrase, GlossSee, GlossSeeAlso, GlossTerm, LineAnnotation, Link, LiteralLayout, LoTentry, Member, MsgAud, OLink, Para, Phrase, Primary, PrimaryIE, ProductName, ProgramListing, Quote, RefEntryTitle, RefPurpose, Screen, ScreenInfo, Secondary, SecondaryIE, See, SeeAlso, SeeAlsoIE, SeeIE, Seg, SegTitle, SimPara, Subtitle, Synopsis, Term, Tertiary, TertiaryIE, Title, TitleAbbrev, ToCback, ToCentry, ToCfront, ULink, entry.

Children

Phrase contains these elements: Abbrev, Acronym, Action, Anchor, Application, Author, AuthorInitials, Citation, CiteRefEntry, CiteTitle, ClassName, CmdSynopsis, Command, Comment, ComputerOutput, CorpAuthor, Database, Email, Emphasis, EnVar, ErrorCode, ErrorName, ErrorType, Filename, FirstTerm, Footnote, FootnoteRef, ForeignPhrase, FuncSynopsis, Function, GUIButton, GUIIcon, GUILabel, GUIMenu, GUIMenuItem, GUISubmenu, GlossTerm, Hardware, InlineEquation, InlineGraphic, Interface, InterfaceDefinition, KeyCap, KeyCode, KeyCombo, KeySym, Link, Literal, Markup, MediaLabel, MenuChoice, ModeSpec, MouseButton, MsgText, OLink, Option, Optional, OtherCredit, #PCDATA, Parameter, Phrase, ProductName, ProductNumber, Prompt, Property, Quote, Replaceable, ReturnValue, RevHistory, SGMLTag, StructField, StructName, Subscript, Superscript, Symbol, Synopsis, SystemItem, Token, Trademark, Type, ULink, UserInput, WordAsWord, XRef.

In some contexts, some of these elements may be invalid due to exclusions in parent elements.

Examples

<PARA>You may delimit <PHRASE ID="phr123">a stretch of text</PHRASE>
as a Phrase so that you can refer to it.  This is also one way of
marking <PHRASE REVISIONFLAG="changed">a section of text
that has been revised.  The section need not</PHRASE> be
a proper linguistic phrase.
</PARA>
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