Version 5.7.12

# `Value`

Contains a text value that is passed to the surrounding element.

## Child elements

(none)

## Parent elements

`A`, `AtPageCreation`, `AtPageShipout`, `B`, `Case`, `Color`, `Columns`, `Contents`, `Element`, `Fontface`, `ForAll`, `Function`, `I`, `Image`, `Initial`, `Li`, `Loop`, `Message`, `NoBreak`, `Otherwise`, `Paragraph`, `Record`, `SavePages`, `SetVariable`, `Span`, `Sub`, `Sup`, `Table`, `Tablefoot`, `Tablehead`, `Td`, `Text`, `Textblock`, `Tr`, `U`, `URL`, `Until`, `While`

## Attributes

`select` (XPath expression, optional)
  Value to be passed to the outer element.

## Remarks

The value can be passed to the outer element either as an XPath expression or as the contents of this element.

Containing Br-tags will be interpreted as newlines.

## Example

    <Record element="data">
      <PlaceObject>
       <Textblock>
         <Paragraph>
           <Value select="@name"/><Value>, symbol=</Value><Value select="@symbol"/>
         </Paragraph>
       </Textblock>
      </PlaceObject>
    </Record>

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