mediaobject

mediaobject — A displayed media object (video, audio, image, etc.).

Synopsis

Sequence of:
- info? (db.titleforbidden.info)
- alt?
- One or more of:
- caption? (db.caption)

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

This element contains a set of alternative “media objects.” Exactly one object will be selected and rendered.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. The primary purpose of the mediaobject is to provide a wrapper around a set of alternative presentations of the same information.

If possible, the processing system should use the content of the first object within the mediaobject. If the first object cannot be used, the remaining objects should be considered in the order that they occur. A processor should use the first object that it can, although it is free to choose any of the remaining objects if the primary one cannot be used.

Under no circumstances should more than one object in a mediaobject be used or presented at the same time.

For example, a mediaobject might contain a video, a high-resolution image, a low-resolution image, a long text description, and a short text description. In a “high-end” online system, the video is used. For print publishing, the high-resolution image is used. For other online systems, either the high- or the low-resolution image is used, possibly including the short text description as the online alternative. In a text-only environment, either the long or the short text description is used.

Parents

This element occurs in 87 elements.

Children

The following elements occur in mediaobject: alt, audioobject, caption (db.caption), imageobject, imageobjectco, info (db.titleforbidden.info), textobject, videoobject.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'
  2 	 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <title>Example mediaobject</title>
  4 
    <mediaobject>
  6   <info>
        <othercredit>
  8       <orgname>O'Reilly Media</orgname>
        </othercredit>
 10     <othercredit>
          <orgname>Dover Archives</orgname>
 12     </othercredit>
      </info>
 14   <alt>The DocBook: TDG Duck</alt>
      <imageobject>
 16     <imagedata align="right" width="6in" format="PNG"
    	       fileref="figs/web/duck-small.png"/>
 18   </imageobject>
      <imageobject>
 20     <imagedata align="right" width="6in" format="GIF"
    	       fileref="figs/web/duck-small.gif"/>
 22   </imageobject>
      <textobject>
 24     <para>The bird on the cover of <citetitle>DocBook: The Definitive
    Guide</citetitle> is a wood duck.  Often considered one of the most
 26 beautiful ducks in North America, the male wood duck has a metallic
    purple and green head with white streaks extending from its bill
 28 around the eyes and down to its blue and green, gold-flecked
    wings. It has a white neck, chestnut-colored chest, a white or red
 30 bill, and yellow-orange legs and feet. Females have more brown, gray,
    and subdueed hues.</para>
 32 
      </textobject>
 34 </mediaobject>
    
 36 </article>

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