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Dialogue

Capture dialogue (e.g. in a stage play) within a disp-quote content-type="dialogue" element.

Capture each line of dialogue in a speech element.

Capture the name of the speaker of a line in a speaker element within the speech.

Capture the text of the line in a p element within the speech.

Do not use typographic formatting elements within speaker. Do not capture punctuation to separate the speaker from the text of the speech.

<disp-quote content-type="dialogue"> 
  <speech>
    <speaker>IB</speaker> 
    <p>Did your villagers fight back (when Laqay bands roamed 
      the region in the late 1920s)?</p>
  </speech> 
  <speech>
    <speaker>Hajji Basir</speaker> 
    <p>Of course they did. They fought with knives, swords and sticks, 
      they would cut their heads [great laughter by the assembly].</p>
  </speech>
</disp-quote> 
Release ID:
20260304
ID:
dialogue
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Wed, 03 Sep 2025
Modified by:
buckmasm
Revision#:
2951