WIDTH

Specifies the “width” of a paragraph or sentence rule - by using the width attribute you may extend a paragraph or sentence rule to find their evidence within several paragraphs or sentences rather than only within 1.

Applies to

• SENTENCE
• PARAGRAPH

Values

• “[N]”

Where [N] is an integer from 0 to 128

Default if width is not specified is 1 (note this is equivalent to width of 0)

Example

With a rulebase fragment

<sentence width="2">
    <text data="hello"/>
    <text data="Fred"/>
</sentence>

with a document like

Hello from Sydney. Fred has finally got round to answering.

Would fire the sentence rule (since its children are found within 2 sentences).