date
date — The date of publication or revision of a document.
Synopsis
date ::=
- One of:
- A date value.
- A dateTime value.
- A gYearMonth value.
- A gYear value.
- text
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
No additional attributes.
Description
The date
element identifies a date.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
DocBook does not specify the format of the date.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
Parents
These elements contain date
: abbrev
, accel
, acronym
, address
, application
, arg
, artpagenums
, attribution
, authorinitials
, bibliocoverage
, biblioentry
, biblioid
, bibliomisc
, bibliomixed
, bibliomset
, bibliorelation
, biblioset
, bibliosource
, bridgehead
, buildtarget
, caption
(db.html.caption), citation
, citebiblioid
, citetitle
, city
, classname
, classsynopsisinfo
, code
, command
, computeroutput
, confdates
, confnum
, confsponsor
, conftitle
, constant
, contractnum
, contractsponsor
, contrib
, country
, database
, description
, edition
, email
, emphasis
(db._emphasis), emphasis
(db.emphasis), entry
, enumidentifier
, enumitemdescription
, enumname
, enumvalue
, envar
, errorcode
, errorname
, errortext
, errortype
, exceptionname
, fax
, filename
, firstname
, firstterm
(db._firstterm), firstterm
(db.firstterm), foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase
(db.foreignphrase), funcdef
, funcparams
, funcsynopsisinfo
, function
, givenname
, glosssee
, glossseealso
, glossterm
(db._glossterm), glossterm
(db.glossterm), guibutton
, guiicon
, guilabel
, guimenu
, guimenuitem
, guisubmenu
, hardware
, holder
, honorific
, info
(db.info), info
(db.titleforbidden.info), info
(db.titleonly.info), info
(db.titleonlyreq.info), info
(db.titlereq.info), initializer
, interfacename
, issuenum
, jobtitle
, keycap
, keycode
, keysym
, label
, lineage
, lineannotation
, link
, literal
, literallayout
, macroname
, manvolnum
, markup
, mathphrase
, member
, merge
, meta
(db.meta.content), methodname
, modifier
, mousebutton
, msgaud
, msglevel
, msgorig
, olink
, option
, optional
, orgdiv
, orgname
, otheraddr
, othername
, package
, pagenums
, para
, paramdef
, parameter
, personname
, phone
, phrase
(db._phrase), phrase
(db.phrase), pob
, postcode
, primary
, primaryie
, productname
, productnumber
, programlisting
, prompt
, property
, publishername
, quote
(db._quote), quote
(db.quote), refdescriptor
, refentrytitle
, refmiscinfo
, refname
, refpurpose
, releaseinfo
, remark
, replaceable
, returnvalue
, revision
, revnumber
, revremark
, screen
, secondary
, secondaryie
, see
, seealso
, seealsoie
, seeie
, seg
, segtitle
, seriesvolnums
, shortaffil
, simpara
, specializedtemplate
, state
, street
, subscript
, subtitle
, superscript
, surname
, symbol
, synopsis
, synopsisinfo
, systemitem
, tag
, td
, template
, templatename
, term
, termdef
, tertiary
, tertiaryie
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, tocentry
, token
, trademark
, type
, typedefname
, unionname
, uri
, userinput
, varname
, volumenum
, wordasword
, year
.
See Also
Related elements: edition
, printhistory
, pubdate
, releaseinfo
, revhistory
.