para — A paragraph of text
The para
element contains a single
paragraph of text. Its contents are not preserved verbatim; instead, it
is treated much like HTML. Multiple whitespace characters (including
spaces and tabs) are compressed into a single space, and linebreaks are
treated as space characters instead of newlines. This allows flexibility
in formatting XML source code.
Paragraphs may contain basic markup to indicate emphasis, URLs, and citations.
para
may be contained in these
elements:
description
, legalnotice
, misc
, note
, objective
, pub
<para> This is a boring paragraph. </para>
<para> I like to <emphasis>emphasize</emphasize> my words; in fact, I've written an article on the topic. It is published on the <emphasis><citation>Really Exciting WRITING!</citation></emphasis> web site at <url>http://www.really-exciting-writing.bob/EMPHASIS.html</url>. </para>