## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 0.6: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

# specific-use

# Specific Use

Specifies distinctions in the applicability of a particular element.

## Usage

This Tag Set does not limit the uses of the @specific-use attribute. For example, @specific-use could be used to mark content (such as a paragraph, note, or section) that:

- only appears in one format (“web-only”, “print-only”, “voice-only”, “electronic-only”);
- is intended for a particular audience (“for-teachers” and “for-students”) or (“for-doctors”, “for-nurses”, and “for-the-patient”);
- is “sensitive” (“company-only” or “limited-distribution”) and thus not shown to all audiences;
- has a specific use that cannot be determined from the content of the material, for example, is part of continuing medical or legal education (“CME”); or
- contains an accessibility alternative that screen readers could “read” but that visual display devices would ignore. (See also the @alt attribute.)

## Remarks

No particular processing or display is promised by the values of this attribute; it is up to the users’ application to make any appropriate display versions. This attribute can be used to create some of the old SGML functionality of using Marked Sections within text.

Best Practice: This attribute is not used to make semantic distinctions, the attribute @content-type is more appropriate to tell, for example, “skeletal” system material, “circulatory” system material, and “lymphatic” system material, or “legal” material from “engineering” material. The @specific-use attribute is used to make usage or processing distinctions, for example,audience or sorting distinctions. The attributes can be used together, for example,to mark “ `content-type="dosage" specific-use="for-the-patient"` ”. The attribute can also be used in combination with the @xml:lang attribute to indicate, for example, that a name given in a second language is a transliteration of the primary name. This attribute is not appropriate for differences in appearance; the element <styled-content> is typically better for that use. Nor should this attribute be used to record lifecycle or version distinctions.

## Attribute Values

#### In Elements

<abbrev>, <ack>, <addr-line>, <address>, <aff>, <alt-text>, <annotation>, <anonymous>, <app>, <app-group>, <array>, <attrib>, <author-comment>, <award-id>, <bio>, <body>, <bold>, <boxed-text>, <caption>, <chapter-title>, <chem-struct>, <chem-struct-wrap>, <collab>, <comment>, <conf-date>, <conf-loc>, <conf-name>, <conf-sponsor>, <contrib>, <contrib-group>, <copyright-holder>, <copyright-statement>, <copyright-year>, <country>, <custom-meta>, <date>, <date-in-citation>, <day>, <def>, <def-item>, <def-list>, <degrees>, <disp-formula>, <disp-formula-group>, <disp-quote>, <edition>, <element-citation>, <elocation-id>, <email>, <etal>, <ext-link>, <fax>, <fig>, <fig-group>, <fn>, <fn-group>, <fpage>, <funding-source>, <glossary>, <gov>, <graphic>, <inline-formula>, <inline-graphic>, <inline-supplementary-material>, <institution>, <isbn>, <issn>, <issue>, <issue-id>, <issue-part>, <issue-title>, <italic>, <journal-id>, <license>, <license-p>, <list>, <list-item>, <long-desc>, <lpage>, <media>, <milestone-end>, <milestone-start>, <mixed-citation>, <monospace>, <month>, <name>, <named-content>, <notes>, <num>, <object-id>, <on-behalf-of>, <open-access>, <overline>, <p>, <page-range>, <part-title>, <patent>, <person-group>, <phone>, <prefix>, <preformat>, <price>, <private-char>, <pub-id>, <publisher-loc>, <publisher-name>, <ref>, <ref-list>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <role>, <roman>, <sans-serif>, <sc>, <season>, <sec>, <series>, <sig>, <sig-block>, <size>, <source>, <speaker>, <speech>, <standard>, <statement>, <std>, <strike>, <string-name>, <styled-content>, <sub>, <subtitle>, <suffix>, <sup>, <supplement>, <supplementary-material>, <table-wrap>, <table-wrap-group>, <target>, <term>, <term-sec>, <textual-form>, <title>, <trans-source>, <trans-title>, <underline>, <uri>, <verse-group>, <verse-line>, <volume>, <volume-id>, <volume-series>, <xref>, <year>

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

## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 0.6: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### Version of December 2011