APA Journal-Publishing DTD Tag Library

<speaker>

Speaker

One who utters one segment of a speech (The statement is captured as one or more paragraphs <p>.)

Remarks

As an example, the computer “HAL” in the exchange “HAL: ‘Hi Dave’” would be tagged as: 

<speech>
<speaker>HAL</speaker>
<p>Hi Dave</p>
</speech>

Previous DTD Relationship. In the contentItem DTD, there was a <dialog> wrapper surrounding one or more speeches. In this DTD, there is no wrapper, just a series of speeches. (see Related Elements below.)

Attribute

content-type Type of Content

Related Elements

A <speech> is a container element that names the person, object or group speaking (<speaker> element), followed by one complete utterance, modeled as one or more paragraphs (<p>). These paragraphs need not be long text constructions, but may contain only a few words, as in the example “Hi Dave” above.

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | bold | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | sub | sup)*

Description

Any combination of:

Example

...
<p align="left">... In one example (Session 2), Lily
had been talking about putting a wall up and not
letting people know how she feels; she was afraid
that she would get hurt even though she &#8220;yearns
to connect.&#8221;
<speech>
<speaker>Dr. N</speaker>
<p align="left"> How that might happen in here? How
might you sort of put up a wall with me?</p>
</speech>
<speech>
<speaker>Lily</speaker>
<p align="left">...</p>
</speech>
</p>
...

Module

para3.ent

APA Journal-Publishing DTD Tag Library

Version of June 27, 2013