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title: "encode:metaphone — Metaphone key"
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# encode:metaphone — Metaphone key

ENCODE:METAPHONE generates the metaphone key of a value.

Metaphone keys have the property that words pronounced similarly produce the same metaphone key.

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| var | var |  | Result variable name |

### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- binding: var; type: string

### Examples

```xml
<output>
	<encode:metaphone>iXML</encode:metaphone>
</output>

<!-- IKSML -->
```