glosslist

glosslist — A wrapper for a list of glossary entries.

Synopsis

Description

While glossarys are usually limited to component or section boundaries, appearing at the end of a book or chapter, for instance, glosslists can appear anywhere that the other list types are allowed.

Using a glosslist in running text, instead of a variablelist, for example, maintains the semantic distinction of a glossary. This distinction may be necessary if you want to automatically point to the members of the list with glossterms in the body of the text.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 73 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 64 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example glosslist</title>
    
  4 <glosslist>
    <glossentry><glossterm>C</glossterm>
  6 <glossdef>
    <para>A procedural programming language invented by K&amp;R.
  8 </para>
    </glossdef>
 10 </glossentry>
    <glossentry><glossterm>Pascal</glossterm>
 12 <glossdef>
    <para>A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.
 14 </para>
    </glossdef>
 16 </glossentry>
    </glosslist>
 18 
    </article>
C

A procedural programming language invented by K&R.

Pascal

A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)