anchor
anchor — A spot in the document.
Description
An anchor identifies a single spot in the content. This may serve
as the target for a cross-reference, for example, from a
link. The anchor element may occur
almost anywhere.
Processing expectations
An anchor has no content and generally
produces no output. It is a link target.
Parents
These elements contain anchor: abbrev, abstract, acknowledgements, acronym, address, answer, appendix, article, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, bibliodiv, bibliography, biblioid, bibliolist, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, bibliosource, blockquote, bridgehead, callout, calloutlist, caption, chapter, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, colophon, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, cover, dedication, dialogue, drama, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, epigraph, example, fax, figure, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), givenname, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, index, informalexample, informalfigure, issuenum, itemizedlist, jobtitle, label, legalnotice, line, lineage, linegroup, link, listitem, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, note, olink, optional, orderedlist, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, partintro, personblurb, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, poetry, postcode, preface, primary, printhistory, procedure, productname, productnumber, publishername, qandadiv, qandaset, question, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, revdescription, revnumber, revremark, secondary, section, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, setindex, shortaffil, sidebar, simpara, simplesect, state, step, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, term, termdef, tertiary, textobject, title, titleabbrev, toc, trademark, uri, variablelist, volumenum, wordasword, year.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example anchor</title>
<para>The anchor element<anchor xml:id="example.anchor.1"/> is empty and contributes
nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs. It is only useful
as a target.
</para>
</article>
The anchor element is empty and contributes nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs. It is only useful as a target.