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<foreign>

foreign

identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other than that of the surrounding text.

Module coreCOHQHF

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.cmc @generatedBy

Classes and content

Member of
model.emphLike
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

figures

gaiji

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

core

corpus

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Note

The global @xml:lang attribute should be supplied for this element to identify the language of the word or phrase marked. As elsewhere, its value should be a language tag as defined in Language Identification.

This element is intended for use only where no other element is available to mark the phrase or words concerned. The global @xml:lang attribute should be used in preference to this element where it is intended to mark the language of the whole of some text element.

The distinct element may be used to identify phrases belonging to sublanguages or registers not generally regarded as true languages.

Example

This is
heathen Greek to you still? Your
<foreign xml:lang="la">lapis
philosophicus</foreign>
?

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq"/>
  </content>