DocBook 5.1: The Definitive Guide  (Version 1.5.3 for DocBook 5.1)

email

email — An email address.

Synopsis

email ::= [-]

Description

Inline markup identifying an email address.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline. An email may generate surrounding punctuation, such as angle brackets. This is an interchange issue. See Appendix D, Interchanging DocBook Documents.

In some processing environments, email may automatically generate a hypertext link (a mailto: URL).

In an address, this element may inherit the verbatim qualities of an address.

Children

The following elements occur in email: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.