number

Element Title: Identification Number

Element Description: Element "number" contains parsable character data and is a unique numeric identifier for structures like biological deposits, complex work units (chemistry, math, tables, and sequences), footnotes, paragraphs, federal research paragraphs, and program listing deposits.

Element Content:

(#PCDATA)

Element is Located in:

biological-deposit, chemistry-cwu, entry, footnote, math-cwu, paragraph, paragraph-federal-research-statement, program-listing-deposit, sequence-cwu, table-cwu

Element Attributes: None

Parameter Entities Containing number: paracon, tbl.entry.mdl

Element Markup Instructions: Note that "number" is unique to the particular structure and may be duplicated across structures. For example you may have a paragraph with 1. and a table with 1, but within paragraphs all number elements are unique and all table numbers are unique.

In general, within the application document, the number elements are ascending for each structure type.

Element Example:

<number>1.</number>
<number>1</number>