phrase (db.phrase)
phrase — A span of text.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Bibliography inlines
- Error inlines
- Graphic inlines
- GUI inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Keyboard inlines
- Linking inlines
- Markup inlines
- Math inlines
- Object-oriented programming inlines
- Operating system inlines
- Product inlines
- Programming inlines
- Publishing inlines
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
remark
subscript
superscript
xref
Attributes
Description
The phrase
element in DocBook has no specific
semantic. It is provided as a wrapper around a selection of words
smaller than a paragraph so that it is possible to provide an xml:id
or other attributes for it.
For example, if you are making note of changes to a document using
one of the effectivity attributes, you might use
phrase
to mark up specific sentences with
revisions.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
This element occurs in 55 elements.
This element contains 100 elements.
See Also
abbrev
, acronym
, emphasis
, foreignphrase
, phrase
(db._phrase), quote
, wordasword
Examples
1 <para xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>Effectivity attributes can 2 be used to keep track of modifications to a document <phrase revisionflag="deleted">at the word or sentence level</phrase> 4 <phrase revisionflag="added"> as long as the number and complexity of changes is not too high</phrase>. 6 </para>
Effectivity attributes can be used to keep track of modifications to a document at the word or sentence level as long as the number and complexity of changes is not too high.