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<sp>

speech

contains an individual speech in a performance text, or a passage presented as such in a prose or verse text.

Module coreCODRCODVDRSP

Attributes

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

textstructure

Contained by

figures

namesdates

tagdocs

textcrit

transcr

Note

The @who attribute on this element may be used either in addition to the speaker element or as an alternative.

Example

<sp>
  <speaker>The reverend Doctor Opimian</speaker>
  <p>I do not think I have named a single unpresentable fish.</p>
</sp>
<sp>
  <speaker>Mr Gryll</speaker>
  <p>Bream, Doctor: there is not much to be said for bream.</p>
</sp>
<sp>
  <speaker>The Reverend Doctor Opimian</speaker>
  <p>On the contrary, sir, I think there is much to be said for him. In the first place [...]</p>
  <p>Fish, Miss Gryll — I could discourse to you on fish by the hour: but for the present I
will forbear [...]</p>
</sp>

Content model

<content>
    <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
      <classRef key="model.stageLike"/>
      <classRef key="model.global"/>
      <classRef key="model.lLike"/>
      <classRef key="model.pLike"/>
      <classRef key="model.listLike"/>
      <classRef key="model.attributable"/>
      <elementRef key="speaker"/>
      <elementRef key="lg"/>
      <elementRef key="q"/>
    </alternate>
  </content>