"mark" Element
<mark>
Description
A mark element is an empty element that places a marker into the text/tag sequence. The mark element can be used to reference a specific location in the text/tag sequence, and can additionally be used to insert a marker into an output stream for asynchronous notification.
Syntax
| <mark name = “string” /> |
Attributes
| Attribute | Description |
| name | Name of the mark. mandatory field |
Parent
<audio>, <emphasis>, <p>, <prosody>, <s>, <speak>, <voice>
Children
None
Limitations/Restrictions
The maximum length of the name value, including null characters, is 512 bytes. Any string longer than that will be truncated.
The <mark> element does not affect the result of the synthesized speech in any way.
Example
| <?xml version="1.0"?> <speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/synthesis.xsd" xml:lang="en-US"> Go from <mark name="start"/> here, to <mark name="end"/> there! </speak> |