## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 0.5: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

# preformat-type

# Type of Preformatted Text

Type of content contained in the Preformatted Text element (for example, computer code, poetry, pseudocode, ASCII art, XML tagging).

## Remarks

This attribute is intended to capture already recorded information; however, for many documents this type of data will not be available.

## Attribute Values

#### In Element

##### <preformat>

Value | Meaning
--- | ---
Data characters | Text, numbers, or special characters.
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used.

#### Suggested usage

Although designed to accept any text as its value, potential values for this attribute might include:

code | Code example in a computer language such as C++ or Visual Basic
poetry | Poems
ascii | ASCII art
man-machine | A man-machine dialog, such as an error message and response
pseudocode | Code-like examples used in explanation

## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 0.5: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### Version of September 2011