appendix
appendix — An appendix in a book or article.
Synopsis
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annotationbridgeheadformalgroupremarkrevhistory- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
informalequationinformalexampleinformalfigureinformaltable(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable(db.html.informaltable)
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- Synopsis elements
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- Verbatim elements
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Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
Appendixes usually occur at the end of a document.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. Usually introduces a forced page break and often starts on the next recto page. Sometimes restarts page numbering. Typically, appendixes are lettered rather than numbered, and appear in the table of contents.
Attributes
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
- label
Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
- status
Identifies the editorial or publication status of the element on which it occurs
Children
The following elements occur in appendix: address, anchor, annotation, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, caution, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, constraintdef, constructorsynopsis, danger, destructorsynopsis, enumsynopsis, epigraph, equation, example, fieldsynopsis, figure, formalgroup, formalpara, funcsynopsis, glossary, glosslist, important, index, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titlereq.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable (db.cals.informaltable), informaltable (db.html.informaltable), itemizedlist, literallayout, macrosynopsis, mediaobject, methodsynopsis, msgset, note, orderedlist, packagesynopsis, para, procedure, productionset, programlisting, programlistingco, qandaset, refentry, remark, revhistory, screen, screenco, screenshot, sect1, section, segmentedlist, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, simplesect, subtitle, synopsis, table (db.cals.table), table (db.html.table), task, tip, title, titleabbrev, toc, topic, typedefsynopsis, unionsynopsis, variablelist, warning.
See Also
Related elements: article, book, chapter, colophon, dedication, part, partintro, preface, set.
Examples
1 |<book xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>|<title>Example book</title>||<chapter>5 |<title>Required Chapter</title>||<para>At least one chapter, reference, part, or article is required in|a book.|</para>10 ||</chapter>||<appendix>|<title>Demonstration Appendix</title>15 ||<para>This appendix demonstrates an appendix in a book. It has the|same broad content model as a chapter.|</para>|20 |</appendix>|</book>