glosslist

glosslist — A wrapper for a list of glossary entries.

Synopsis

glosslist ::=

Additional Constraints

  • If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.

Description

While glossarys are usually limited to component or section boundaries, appearing at the end of a book or chapter, for instance, glosslists can appear anywhere that the other list types are allowed.

Using a glosslist in running text, instead of a variablelist, for example, maintains the semantic distinction of a glossary. This distinction may be necessary if you want to automatically point to the members of the list with glossterms in the body of the text.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<title>Example glosslist</title>
   | 
   |<glosslist>
 5 |<glossentry><glossterm>C</glossterm>
   |<glossdef>
   |<para>A procedural programming language invented by K&amp;R.
   |</para>
   |</glossdef>
10 |</glossentry>
   |<glossentry><glossterm>Pascal</glossterm>
   |<glossdef>
   |<para>A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.
   |</para>
15 |</glossdef>
   |</glossentry>
   |</glosslist>
   | 
   |</article>
C

A procedural programming language invented by K&R.

Pascal

A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.