"mark" Element

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

AttributeDescription
nameName 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 is 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>
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