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phrase — A span of text
phrase ::= (#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|abbrev|acronym|citetitle|emphasis| footnote|phrase|quote|trademark|link|ulink|command| computeroutput|email|filename|literal|option|replaceable| systemitem|userinput|inlinemediaobject)*
Common attributes
The Phrase element in DocBook has no specific semantic. It is provided as a wrapper around a selection of words smaller than a paragraph so that it is possible to provide an ID or other attributes for them.
For example, if you are making note of changes to a document using one of the effectivity attributes, you might use Phrase to mark up specific sentences with revisions.
Formatted inline.
These elements contain phrase: attribution, bibliomisc, citetitle, emphasis, entry, lineannotation, link, literallayout, para, phrase, programlisting, quote, subtitle, term, textobject, title, titleabbrev, ulink.
The following elements occur in phrase: abbrev, acronym, citetitle, command, computeroutput, email, emphasis, filename, footnote, footnoteref, inlinemediaobject, link, literal, option, phrase, quote, replaceable, systemitem, trademark, ulink, userinput, xref.
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"> <para> Effectivity attributes can be used to keep track of modifications to a document <phrase revisionflag="deleted">at the word or sentence level</phrase><phrase revisionflag="added"> as long as the number and complexity of changes is not too high</phrase>. </para>
Effectivity attributes can be used to keep track of modifications to a document at the word or sentence level as long as the number and complexity of changes is not too high.
For additional examples, see also audioobject, imageobject, inlinemediaobject.