V5.0acknowledgements
acknowledgements — Acknowledgements of a book or other component.
Synopsis
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- Sequence of:
- One of:
- One or more of:
annotationbridgeheadremarkrevhistory- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
informalequationinformalexampleinformalfigureinformaltable(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable(db.html.informaltable)
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Synopsis elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
- One of:
Attributes
Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
The acknowledgements section of a book or other
component provides the author(s) with a place to identify individuals,
organizations, and other sources of support and to acknowledge their
contributions to the work.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. In books, it usually introduces a forced page break and often starts on the next recto page. In smaller components, such as articles, it may simply appear as another section.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- label
Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
- status
Identifies the editorial or publication status of the element on which it occurs
Parents
These elements contain acknowledgements: article, book, part.
Children
The following elements occur in acknowledgements: address, anchor, annotation, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, caution, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, constraintdef, constructorsynopsis, destructorsynopsis, epigraph, equation, example, fieldsynopsis, figure, formalpara, funcsynopsis, glosslist, important, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable (db.cals.informaltable), informaltable (db.html.informaltable), itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, methodsynopsis, msgset, note, orderedlist, para, procedure, productionset, programlisting, programlistingco, qandaset, remark, revhistory, screen, screenco, screenshot, segmentedlist, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, subtitle, synopsis, table (db.cals.table), table (db.html.table), task, tip, title, titleabbrev, variablelist, warning.
Examples
<book xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>An Example Book</title>
<info>
<author><personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname></author>
</info>
<acknowledgements>
<para>Many thanks to the hundreds of contributors to the
example project. In particular, I'd like to thank the following
individuals, without whose contributions, this work would
not be half as useful:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><personname><firstname>A</firstname>
<surname>Nonymous</surname></personname>, for …
</para>
</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
</acknowledgements>
<chapter><title>A Chapter</title>
<para>The body of the book…</para>
</chapter>
</book>