<ph>

A phrase is a small group of words that stand together as a unit, typically forming a component of a clause.

The <ph> element often is used to enclose a phrase for reuse or conditional processing.

The <ph> element frequently is used as a specialization base, to create phrase-level markup that can provide additional semantic meaning or trigger specific processing or formatting. For example, all highlighting domain elements are specializations of <ph>.

The following attributes are available on this element: universal attributes and @keyref.

Example

The following code sample shows <ph> elements that are used for conditional processing:

<p>The Style menu is the <ph product="Software1000"/>third item</ph>
<ph product="Software9000"/>fourth item</ph> from the left on the menu bar.</p>