- <para>
- One of these elements is required for every data element in
- the internal representation of the record (see
- <xref linkend="data_model"/>. It governs
- subsequent processing as pertains to sorting, relevance
- ranking, merging, and display of data elements. It supports
- the following attributes:
- </para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ One of these elements is required for every data element in
+ the internal representation of the record (see
+ <xref linkend="data_model"/>. It governs
+ subsequent processing as pertains to sorting, relevance
+ ranking, merging, and display of data elements. It supports
+ the following attributes:
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist> <!-- level 3 -->
+ <varlistentry><term>name</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is the name of the data element. It is matched
+ against the 'type' attribute of the 'metadata' element
+ in the normalized record. A warning is produced if
+ metdata elements with an unknown name are found in the
+ normalized record. This name is also used to represent
+ data elements in the records returned by the
+ webservice API, and to name sort lists and browse
+ facets.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>