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# revision

$Revision: 1666 $

$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $

revision — An entry describing a single revision in the history of the revisions to a document

## Synopsis

### Content Model

    revision ::=
    (revnumber?,date,
     (author|authorinitials)*,
     (revremark|revdescription)?)

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

`Revision` contains information about a single revision to a document. Revisions are identified by a number and a date. They may also include the initials of the author, and additional remarks.

### Processing expectations

`Revision`s are often presented in a list or table. In a tabular presentation, each revision most likely forms a row in the table.

### Parents

These elements contain revision: `revhistory`.

### Children

The following elements occur in revision: `author`, `authorinitials`, `date`, `revdescription`, `revnumber`, `revremark`.

## Examples

For examples, see `article`, `revhistory`.

revhistory |  | revnumber

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