para

Name

para — A paragraph of text

Synopsis

Content Model

(#PCDATA|emphasis|citation|url|link)*

Attributes

Name	Type	Default
targets	CDATA	None

Description

The para element contains a single paragraph of text. Its contents are not preserved verbatim; instead, it is treated much like HTML. Multiple whitespace characters (including spaces and tabs) are compressed into a single space, and linebreaks are treated as space characters instead of newlines. This allows flexibility in formatting XML source code.

Paragraphs may contain basic markup to indicate emphasis, URLs, and citations.

Parents

para may be contained in these elements: description, legalnotice, misc, note, objective, pub

Examples

<para>
  This is a boring paragraph.
</para>

<para>
  I like to <emphasis>emphasize</emphasize> my words; in fact, I've written an
  article on the topic. It is published on the <emphasis><citation>Really
  Exciting WRITING!</citation></emphasis> web site at
  <url>http://www.really-exciting-writing.bob/EMPHASIS.html</url>.