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Subject

Name

Synopsis

  SubjectTerm+

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Name	Value(s)	Type	Default Value
Weight	NUMBER	#IMPLIED

Tag Minimization

Both the start- and end-tags are required for this element.

Description

Subject is a group of SubjectTerms, which describe the content of a document. All the SubjectTerms in a Subject describe the document content according to the same frame of reference. More than one Subject can be supplied in the containing element, SubjectSet, so that multiple frames of reference can be used.

Subject has Weight and common attributes. Weight is the ranking of this group of SubjectTerms relative to other groups of SubjectTerms in the same SubjectSet. The value of Weight must be a nonnegative integer, with 0 indicating the lowest value; no highest value is specified. No default is specified for the relationship of the values of Weight across different SubjectSets.

Parents

Subject occurs in SubjectSet.

Children

Subject contains SubjectTerm.

Attributes

Weight

Weight indicates the ranking of this group of SubjectTerms relative to other groups of SubjectTerms in the same SubjectSet.

Examples

<DOCINFO>
<TITLE>Prolegomenon to Any Future GML</TITLE>
<SUBTITLE>An Inquiry into Tag Abuse
</SUBTITLE>
<SUBJECTSET SCHEME=LCSH>
<SUBJECT WEIGHT=5>
<SUBJECTTERM>Electronic publishing
</SUBJECTTERM>
<SUBJECTTERM>Computer program languages
</SUBJECTTERM>
</SUBJECT>
<SUBJECT WEIGHT=8>
<SUBJECTTERM>SGML
</SUBJECTTERM>
</SUBJECT>
</SUBJECTSET>
<SUBJECTSET SCHEME=LOCAL>
<SUBJECT WEIGHT=4>
<SUBJECTTERM>GML
</SUBJECTTERM>
</SUBJECT>
<SUBJECT WEIGHT=9>
<SUBJECTTERM>Tag Abuse
</SUBJECTTERM>
</SUBJECT>
<SUBJECT WEIGHT=3>
<SUBJECTTERM>Standards Revision
</SUBJECTTERM>
<SUBJECTTERM>Biting Critique
</SUBJECTTERM>
</SUBJECT>
</SUBJECTSET>

<KEYWORDSET LANG=EN>
<KEYWORD>SGML
</KEYWORD>
<KEYWORD>revision
</KEYWORD>
</KEYWORDSET>
<KEYWORDSET LANG=Klingon>
<KEYWORD>$*#@!
</KEYWORD>
<KEYWORD>MMMMMM!
</KEYWORD>
</KEYWORDSET>
<AUTHORGROUP>
<AUTHOR>
<HONORIFIC>Dr.
</HONORIFIC>
<FIRSTNAME>John
</FIRSTNAME>
<OTHERNAME>&ldquo;Jack&rdquo;
</OTHERNAME>
<SURNAME>Farquhar
</SURNAME>
<LINEAGE>Jr.
</LINEAGE>
<AUTHORBLURB>
<PARA>Jack is always the first to abuse a tag.</PARA>
</AUTHORBLURB>
<AFFILIATION>
<SHORTAFFIL>Prof
</SHORTAFFIL>
<JOBTITLE>Abject Professor of Markup
</JOBTITLE>
<ORGNAME>Technical University of Michigan
</ORGNAME>
<ORGDIV>School of Deadwood
</ORGDIV>
</AFFILIATION>
</AUTHOR>
</AUTHORGROUP>
<AUTHORGROUP>
<EDITOR>
<FIRSTNAME>Earl
</FIRSTNAME>
<OTHERNAME>Lee
</OTHERNAME>
<SURNAME>Reiser
</SURNAME>
</EDITOR>
</AUTHORGROUP>
<AUTHORGROUP>
<OTHERCREDIT>
<FIRSTNAME>A
</FIRSTNAME>
<SURNAME>Goodlistener
</SURNAME>
<CONTRIB>as told to
</CONTRIB>
</OTHERCREDIT>
</AUTHORGROUP>
<ABSTRACT>
<PARA>Rips the veil from the face of SGML's dirtiest secret:
the tags don't always mean what they're supposed to!
</PARA>
</ABSTRACT>
<REVHISTORY>
<REVISION>
<REVNUMBER>1.1
</REVNUMBER>
<DATE>3.4.1996
</DATE>
<AUTHORINITIALS>F.B.
</AUTHORINITIALS>
<REVREMARK>Cleaned up a few typos.
</REVREMARK>
</REVISION>
</REVHISTORY>
<LEGALNOTICE>
<PARA>All words are property of the English language.
</PARA>
</LEGALNOTICE>
</DOCINFO>

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