<anchor>
| <anchor> (anchor point) attaches an identifier to a point within a text, whether or not it corresponds with a textual element. 8.4.2 Synchronization and Overlap 16.4 Correspondence and Alignment | |
| Module | linking — 16 Linking, Segmentation, and Alignment | 
| In addition to global attributes | att.typed (@type, @subtype) | 
| Used by | |
| May contain | Empty element | 
| Declaration | 
 
element anchor { att.global.attributes, att.typed.attributes, empty } | 
| Example | <s>The anchor is he<anchor xml:id="A234"/>re somewhere.</s> <s>Help me find it.<ptr target="#A234"/> </s> | 
| Note | 
                           On this
                        element, the global xml:id attribute must be supplied to
                        specify an identifier for the point at which this element occurs
                        within a document. The value used may be chosen freely provided that
                        it is unique within the document and is a syntactically valid name. There is no requirement for values containing numbers
                        to be in sequence.
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