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<opener>

opener

groups together dateline, byline, salutation, and similar phrases appearing as a preliminary group at the start of a division, especially of a letter.

Module textstructureDSDTB

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
att.written @hand

Classes and content

Member of
model.divTopPart
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

cmc

core

drama

textstructure

Examples

<opener>
  <dateline>Walden, this 29. of August 1592</dateline>
</opener>

<opener>
  <dateline>
    <name type="place">Great Marlborough Street</name>
    <date>November 11, 1848</date>
  </dateline>
  <salute>My dear Sir,</salute>
</opener>
<p>I am sorry to say that absence from town and other circumstances have prevented me from
earlier enquiring...</p>

Content model

<content>
    
      <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
        <textNode/>
        <classRef key="model.gLike"/>
        <classRef key="model.phrase"/>
        
        <elementRef key="argument"/>
        <elementRef key="byline"/>
        <elementRef key="dateline"/>
        <elementRef key="epigraph"/>
        <elementRef key="salute"/>
        <elementRef key="signed"/>
        <classRef key="model.global"/>
      </alternate>
    
  </content>