XML representation of Unified Standard Format Markup Scripture files. This schema is intended for use with Holy Bible files only. This schema is copyright 2005-2006 EBT and SIL; released under the Gnu Lesser Public License or the Common Public License, as explained in LICENSING.txt.

Three-letter Ethnologue code or two-letter ISO language code, optionally followed by a dialect indicator.

Remark or comment, not for publication.

This element contains one book of the Bible or optionally some front or back matter. The id attribute is for the three-letter code for this book of the Bible (or FRT for front matter and BAK for back matter).

From the \id marker line. The first three characters of the contents of this element MUST be the three-letter code for this book of the Bible (or FRT for front matter and BAK for back matter).

Encoding of the corresponding USFM file. (Encoding of this XML file is given in the XML header.)

Remark or comment, not for publication, such as notes about translation status.

Short book name for a running header, like "Matthew".

Chapter label, like "Chapter" or "Psalm" in the target language. If used, this label should be placed before any chapter start labels.

The p element contains not only the \p marker's contents, but also every kind of paragraph and heading or title. If this is used for something other than \p, then the sfm attribute MUST be set to indicate which kind of paragraph, or heading is intended. Headings, and paragraphs are in the same group because they all correspond to paragraphs in a word processing document. This element includes \ps, \psi, and \nb. Note that some common paragraph elements (q, d, and s) could have been included in this element, too, but have their own element tags for convenience in manual editing of the XML.

Poetry line "paragraph"

The main title of a book of the Bible, such as "The Good News According to Matthew"

Descriptive title of a Psalm (Hebrew title)

Section heading (not part of the Scripture text).

This marker is a place to encode proposed markers such as \pub, \toc, \pref, \conc, \glo, \idx, \cov, \spine, \and environment markers. 

Blank line between stanzas of poetry; not to be used before or after a section header. This element should be empty.

This element surrounds content generated from other elements. This tag and its contents is discarded when converting back to USFM.

Chapter starting point. It contains the chapter number, possibly with a chapter name designator, NOT the whole chapter. The chapter number itself should be specified in the id attribute, and is used to generate the contents of the tag, which are optional and may be discarded.

This type consists of the mixed text and tags that can appear inside any paragraph.

This element contains the chapter starting point MARKER, NOT the chapter itself. The chapter is assumed to end at the beginning of the next chapter or at the end of the book element. The marker is normally generated from the id attribute, overwriting whatever this element contained before.

The v element contains the verse starting point, NOT the verse itself. The contents of this element are generated automatically from the id attribute, and may be just a verse number or verse range, possibly with formatting information (like bold and superscript).