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# phone

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phone — A telephone number

## Synopsis

### Mixed Content Model

    phone ::=
    (#PCDATA|link|olink|ulink|emphasis|trademark|replaceable|remark|
     subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|indexterm)*

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

`Phone` identifies a telephone number in an `Address`.

### Processing expectations

Formatted inline. Sometimes suppressed. In an `Address`, this element may inherit the verbatim qualities of an address.

### Parents

These elements contain phone: `address`.

### Children

The following elements occur in phone: `emphasis`, `indexterm`, `inlinegraphic`, `inlinemediaobject`, `link`, `olink`, `remark`, `replaceable`, `subscript`, `superscript`, `trademark`, `ulink`.

## See Also

`address`, `city`, `country`, `email`, `fax`, `otheraddr`, `pob`, `postcode`, `state`, `street`.

## Examples

For examples, see `address`.

personname |  | phrase

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