#### 8.10.2.1 IfcPresentableText

IfcPresentableText is a text string used to capture the content of a text literal for the purpose of presentation. The IfcPresentableText can include multiple lines of text, for which the line feed character LF, 0x0A, should be used to separate lines.

> NOTE The non printable characters are converted within the standard exchange format ISO 10303-21 (STEP physical file format), commonly the \X\09 represents the TAB, and \X\0A the LF character.

> NOTE The IfcPresentableText is an entity that had been adopted from ISO 10303, Industrial automation systems and integration—Product data representation and exchange, Part 46: Integrated generic resources: Visual presentation.

> NOTE Entity adapted from presentable_text defined in ISO10303-46.

> HISTORY New type in IFC2x2.

XSD Specification:

<xs:simpleType name="IfcPresentableText">
<xs:restriction base="xs:normalizedString"/>
</xs:simpleType>
<xs:element name="IfcPresentableText-wrapper" nillable="true">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extension base="ifc:IfcPresentableText">
<xs:attributeGroup ref="ifc:instanceAttributes"/>
</xs:extension>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

EXPRESS Specification:

TYPE IfcPresentableText = STRING;
END_TYPE;

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