<eg>
| <eg> (example) contains any kind of illustrative example. 22.4.4 Element Specifications 22.4.5 Attribute List Specification | |
| Module | tagdocs — 22 Documentation Elements | 
| In addition to global attributes | att.xmlspace (@xml:space) | 
| Used by | |
| May contain | Character data only | 
| Declaration | 
 
element eg { att.global.attributes, att.xmlspace.attributes, text } | 
| Example | <p>The <gi>term</gi> element is declared using the following syntax: <eg><![CDATA[<!ELEMENT term (%phrase.content;)>]]</eg> </p> | 
| Note | 
                           If the example contains material in XML markup, either it must be
                        enclosed within a CDATA marked  section, or character entity
                        references must be used to represent the markup delimiters. If the
                        example contains well-formed XML, it should be marked using the
                        more specific egXML element.
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