
This example demonstrates the use of two tags PAR (parallel) and EXCL (exclusive). The EXCL element has been introduced in the SMIL 2.0 draft. In the example, two images are shown as buttons. When the user clicks on one of the buttons, only then is the selection played. If the user selects "Story" then selects "Weather", "Story" is stopped and "Weather" is played. The
Notice the use of the <par> tag to schedule captions for the story in parallel to the video, and a spoken weather report in parallel to the picture of the weather.