V5.2meta (db.meta.content)
meta — A generic metadata element.
Synopsis
meta (db.meta.content) ::= × ⏵
- Zero or more of:
- text
- text
*:*
bridgehead
formalgroup
revhistory
- Bibliography inlines ⏵
- Error inlines ⏵
- Graphic inlines ⏵
- GUI inlines ⏵
- Indexing inlines ⏵
- Keyboard inlines ⏵
- Linking inlines ⏵
- Markup inlines ⏵
- Math inlines ⏵
- Object-oriented programming inlines ⏵
- Operating system inlines ⏵
- Product inlines ⏵
- Programming inlines ⏵
- Publishing inlines ⏵
- Technical inlines ⏵
- Ubiquitous inlines ⏵
- Admonition elements ⏵
- Formal elements ⏵
- Graphic elements ⏵
- Informal elements ⏵
- List elements ⏵
- Paragraph elements ⏵
- Publishing elements ⏵
- Synopsis elements ⏵
- Technical elements ⏵
- Verbatim elements ⏵
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
- name
Description
The meta
element can be used to add arbitrary metadata
to the info
section of an element. DocBook makes no assertions about
the semantics of these elements.
If the meta
tag does not have a content
attribute, then the content of the element is taken to be the metadata value.
Processing expectations
Suppressed. The meta
information may be used
in presentation, but it is not generally formatted directly.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
- name
A name for the metadata element
Parents
10 elements contain meta
. × ⏵
Children
176 elements occur in meta
. × ⏵
See Also
Related elements: meta
(db.meta.empty).
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
|<info>
|<title>Example with meta elements</title>
|<meta name="widget-color" content="blue"/>
5 |<meta name="widget-text">
|<emphasis>W</emphasis>idget
|</meta>
|</info>
|<para>This example article has two
10 |<tag>meta</tag> elements in its
|<tag>info</tag>.</para>
|</article>
This example article has two
meta
elements in its
info
.