acknowledgements

acknowledgements — Acknowledgements of a book or other component.

Synopsis

acknowledgements ::=

Sequence of:
- One of:
  - Sequence of:
    Interleave of:
    title?
    titleabbrev?
    subtitle?
    info? (db.titleforbidden.info)
  - info? (db.info)
- One or more of:
  - bridgehead
  - dialogue
  - drama
  - poetry
  - remark
  - revhistory
  - Indexing inlines
    indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
    indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
    indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  - Admonition elements
    note
  - Formal elements
    equation
    example
    figure
    table
  - Graphic elements
    mediaobject
  - Informal elements
    informalequation
    informalexample
    informalfigure
    informaltable
  - List elements
    bibliolist
    calloutlist
    glosslist
    itemizedlist
    orderedlist
    procedure
    qandaset
    simplelist
    variablelist
  - Paragraph elements
    anchor
    formalpara
    para
    simpara
  - Publishing elements
    address
    blockquote
    epigraph
    sidebar
  - Technical elements
    procedure
    task
  - Verbatim elements
    literallayout

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

The acknowledgements section of a book or other component provides the author(s) with a place to identify individuals, organizations, and other sources of support and to acknowledge their contributions to the work.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. In books, it usually introduces a forced page break and often starts on the next recto page. In smaller components, such as articles, it may simply appear as another section.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

label: Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
status: Identifies the editorial or publication status of the element on which it occurs

Parents

These elements contain acknowledgements: article, book, part.

Children

The following elements occur in acknowledgements: address, anchor, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalpara, glosslist, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, poetry, procedure, qandaset, remark, revhistory, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, subtitle, table, task, title, titleabbrev, variablelist.

Examples

<book xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>An Example Book</title>
<info>
  <author><personname>
    <firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname>
  </personname></author>
</info>

<acknowledgements>
<para>Many thanks to the hundreds of contributors to the
example project. In particular, I'd like to thank the following
individuals, without whose contributions, this work would
not be half as useful:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><personname><firstname>A</firstname>
<surname>Nonymous</surname></personname>, for …
</para>
</listitem>
<!-- ... -->
</itemizedlist>
</acknowledgements>

<chapter><title>A Chapter</title>
<para>The body of the book…</para>
</chapter>
</book>


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