revhistory
revhistory — A history of the revisions to a document.
Synopsis
revhistory ::=
- Sequence of:
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
No additional attributes.
Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
A revhistory is a structure for documenting a
history of changes, specifically, a history of changes to the document
or section in which it occurs.
DocBook does not mandate an order for
revisions: ascending order by date, descending order
by date, and orders based on some other criteria are all equally
acceptable.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. A tabular or list presentation is most common.
The order of revisions within a
revhistory (e.g., ascending or descending date
order) is not mandated by DocBook.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
Parents
These elements contain revhistory: abstract, acknowledgements, annotation, answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, biblioentry, bibliography, bibliolist, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockquote, callout, calloutlist, caption (db.caption), caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, cover, danger, dedication, entry, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, important, index, indexdiv, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, merge, meta (db.meta.content), msgexplan, msgtext, note, orderedlist, para, partintro, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, result, revdescription, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, structure, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, textobject, th, tip, toc, tocdiv, topic, variablelist, warning.
Children
The following elements occur in revhistory: info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), revision, title, titleabbrev.
See Also
Related elements: date, edition, printhistory, pubdate, releaseinfo.
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>|<title>Example revhistory</title>||<revhistory>5 ||<revision>|<revnumber>0.91</revnumber>|<date>1996-12-11</date>|<authorinitials>ndw</authorinitials>10 |<revremark>Bug fixes</revremark>|</revision>||<revision>|<revnumber>0.90</revnumber>15 |<date>1996-11-30</date>|<authorinitials>ndw</authorinitials>|<revremark>First beta release</revremark>|</revision>|20 |</revhistory>||</article>
| 0.91 | 11 Dec 1996 | Bug fixes | |
| 0.90 | 30 Nov 1996 | First beta release |