abstract

abstract — A summary.

Synopsis

Sequence of:
- One of:
  - Sequence of:
    Interleave of:
    title?
    titleabbrev?
    info? (db.titleforbidden.info)
  - info (db.titleonly.info)
- One or more of:
  - Paragraph elements
    anchor
    formalpara
    para
    simpara

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

An abstract can occur in most components of DocBook. It is expected to contain some sort of summary of the content with which it is associated (by containment).

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes suppressed. Often presented in alternate outputs.

Parents

These elements contain abstract: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info).

Children

The following elements occur in abstract: anchor, formalpara, info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), para, simpara, title, titleabbrev.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <info>
      <title>Example abstract</title>
  4   <abstract>
        <para>In brief, …
  6     </para>
      </abstract>
  8 </info>
    
 10 <para>…</para>
    
 12 </article>


abbrev		accel