Dialogue

Capture each block of dialogue or conversation in a displayText class="dialogue" element.

DIA

Dialogue

Each displayText must be captured within it's own p element (see Display text markup location).

displayText[@class="dialogue"]

Capture each line of dialogue in a speech element.

displayText[@class="dialogue"]/speech

Capture the name of the speaker or speakers as the first child of the speech element in a single speaker element.

speech/speaker

Capture the spoken text in a line element.

speech/line

Conversation: Print

Conversation: XML


      <p>In a dialogue like (1), all the maxims are fulfilled:</p>
      <p>
             <displayText class="dialogue"><p fullOut="Y">(<enumerator>1</enumerator>)</p><speech>
                     <speaker>A.</speaker>
 <line>Do you know Paul’s new address?</line>
                 </speech><speech>
                     <speaker>B.</speaker>
 <line>Yes, he lives in Paris now, 25 Place Monge, first floor.</line>
                 </speech>
        </displayText>
         </p>
      <p>By the mere act of answering, B shows his willingness to make his contribution to the
        conversation. His reply also demonstrates that he agrees with the topics proposed by... </p>

Script: Print

Script: XML


      <p> ...white or black. The group dead prez did attempt to challenge this narrow inscription,
        and establish cross-racial and cross-ethnic solidarity in the following scene of the
        movie.</p>
      <p>
             <displayText class="dialogue" id="oxfordhb-9780199897827-e-024-displayText-2"><speech id="oxfordhb-9780199897827-e-024-speech-1">
                     <speaker>M-1:</speaker> <line>Throwing
              up my gang sign. [makes gesture with his right hand, palm forward, middle finger and
              thumb straight, pointer, ring finger, and pinky bent] It’s bad. Well no, really, it
              means something. It means <i>ya basta</i>. Know what I’m saying? It’s Mexican. For all
              my <i>compañeros and compañeras</i>. This means <i>ya basta</i>. Enough is
              enough.</line>
                 </speech><speech id="oxfordhb-9780199897827-e-024-speech-2">
                     <speaker>Dave:</speaker> <line>Is that
              some Mexican shit?</line>
                 </speech><speech id="oxfordhb-9780199897827-e-024-speech-3">
                     <speaker>M-1:</speaker>
   <line>Yeah.</line>
                 </speech><speech id="oxfordhb-9780199897827-e-024-speech-4">
                     <speaker>Dave:</speaker> <line>So if I
              see some Mexicans and I throw this up [makes sign], and this means…</line>
                 </speech><speech id="oxfordhb-9780199897827-e-024-speech-5">
                     <speaker>M-1:</speaker> <line>
                         <i>Ya
                basta</i>.</line>
                 </speech><speech id="oxfordhb-9780199897827-e-024-speech-6">
                     <speaker>Dave:</speaker> <line>
                         <i>Ya
                basta.</i> And they’ll be like, “All right.”</line>
                 </speech>
        </displayText>
      </p>