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$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $
abstract — A summary
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).
Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes suppressed. Often presented in alternate outputs.
These elements contain abstract:
appendix
, appendixinfo
, article
, articleinfo
, bibliodiv
, biblioentry
, bibliography
, bibliographyinfo
, bibliomixed
, bibliomset
, biblioset
, blockinfo
, blockquote
, bookinfo
, callout
, chapter
, chapterinfo
, glossary
, glossaryinfo
, glossdiv
, index
, indexinfo
, itemizedlist
, listitem
, msgexplan
, msgtext
, objectinfo
, orderedlist
, partinfo
, partintro
, preface
, prefaceinfo
, procedure
, refentryinfo
, referenceinfo
, refsect1
, refsect1info
, refsect2
, refsect2info
, refsect3
, refsect3info
, refsection
, refsectioninfo
, refsynopsisdiv
, refsynopsisdivinfo
, sect1
, sect1info
, sect2
, sect2info
, sect3
, sect3info
, sect4
, sect4info
, sect5
, sect5info
, section
, sectioninfo
, setindex
, setindexinfo
, setinfo
, sidebarinfo
, simplesect
, step
, taskprerequisites
, taskrelated
, tasksummary
, variablelist
.
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"> <chapter><title>Some Chapter</title> <abstract> <para> In brief, … </para> </abstract> <para> In this chapter, … </para> </chapter>
For additional examples, see also
section
.