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 Element reference

PSML elements from <author> to <xref>

<description>

Summary

The <description> element is used to provide a short text-only description.

Usage context

Element categorymetadata
PSML levelmetadata
Permitted contenttext
Permitted parent<uri>, <version>, <compareto>
HTML equivalent<meta name="description">
OpenXML equivalent

Attributes

This element does not have any attributes.

Examples

Description of a document inside a <uri> element.

<uri title="Alice in Wonderland" ... >
  <displaytitle>Alice in Wonderland</displaytitle>
  <description>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel
    written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the
    pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
  </description>
</uri>

Schema

XML Schema

<xs:element name="description" type="xs:string"/>

Relax Schema

element description {
  text
}

Compatibility

This element was introduced in the first draft of PSML and is well-supported from PageSeeder 5.1.

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