glossary
glossary — A glossary.
Synopsis
glossary ::= × ⏵
- Sequence of:
- One of:
- Zero or more of:
annotation
bridgehead
formalgroup
remark
revhistory
- Indexing inlines ⏵
- Admonition elements ⏵
- Formal elements ⏵
- Graphic elements ⏵
- Informal elements ⏵
- List elements ⏵
- Paragraph elements ⏵
- Publishing elements ⏵
- Synopsis elements ⏵
- Technical elements ⏵
- Verbatim elements ⏵
- One of:
- Zero or more of:
- Zero or more of:
bibliography
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Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
- label
- status
Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
A glossary
contains a collection of terms and
brief descriptions or definitions of those terms.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. A glossary
in
a book
frequently causes a forced page break in
print media.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking 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
Parents
13 elements contain glossary
. × ⏵
Children
74 elements occur in glossary
. × ⏵
Examples
1 |<glossary xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
|<title>Example Glossary</title>
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<para>This is not a real glossary, it's just an example.
5 |</para>
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<!-- ... -->
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<glossdiv><title>E</title>
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<glossentry xml:id="xml"><glossterm>Extensible Markup Language</glossterm>
|<acronym>XML</acronym>
|<glossdef>
|<para>Some reasonable definition here.</para>
15 |<glossseealso otherterm="sgml">SGML</glossseealso>
|</glossdef>
|</glossentry>
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</glossdiv>
20 ||
<!-- ... -->
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<glossdiv><title>S</title>
|25 |
<glossentry><glossterm>SGML</glossterm>
|<glosssee otherterm="sgml"/>
|</glossentry>
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<glossentry xml:id="sgml"><glossterm>Standard Generalized
30 |Markup Language</glossterm><acronym>SGML</acronym>
|<abbrev>ISO 8879:1986</abbrev>
|<glossdef>
|<para>Some reasonable definition here.</para>
|<glossseealso otherterm="xml">XML</glossseealso>
35 |</glossdef>
|</glossentry>
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</glossdiv>
|</glossary>
This is not a real glossary, it's just an example.