phrase (db.phrase)

phrase — A span of text.

Synopsis

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.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 55 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 100 elements.

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.

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