Node type: Element (may contain text and/or other elements)
Whitespace: Not protected
Marks the location of a line break or line separation.
{empty}
<titleBlock>
<title paraID="1">The <dominant>Pearl of <br/>Great Price</dominant> <br/>Student Manual</title>
<subtitle paraID="2">Religion 2327</subtitle>
</titleBlock>
Sometimes called a “soft return.”
This element is empty in valid ldsXML documents. When an ldsXML document is transformed for print production in InDesign, a Unicode line separator character is inserted into this element. Upon export from InDesign, all line separator characters in the document are deleted, and br elements are left empty.
Since they are stripped on export, line separator characters, whether protected by a br element or not, should be immediately preceeded by a space character.
Unprotected line breaks (i.e. without XML tags) can be used inside paragraphs in InDesign for copyfitting.
See Whitespace handling standards in InDesign for more information.
Use normal line breaks (Shift-Enter), or enter the XML form (<br/>) directly using the xmlChar character style.