United States Congress Data Dictionary of Legislative Documents

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Element Name:	para
Description:	Container used inside non-statutory-material to hold the actual textual material such as a poem.
Bills DTD Content Model:	(#PCDATA | quote | bold | italic | linebreak | pagebreak)*
Attributes:	Name: justification Description: Used with the element para to indicate the placement on the page of non-statutory-material. The default is “left”. Value(s): left, center, right Default Value: left Name: para-indent Description: Used with the element para to describe the number of “ems” to indent the text of non-statutory-material. Default is “1”. Value(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Default Value: 1
Parent Elements:	non-statutory-material