dedication
dedication — The dedication of a book or other component.
Synopsis
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- Sequence of:
- One of:
- One or more of:
bridgeheaddialoguedramapoetryremarkrevhistory- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
- One of:
Attributes
Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
A dedication is a page or section, most often
at the very beginning of a book (before any other body matter),
containing a tribute to something (frequently someone) in connection
with the writing or publication of the book.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. Frequently appears on a page by itself at the beginning of a book.
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 dedication: book, part.
Children
The following elements occur in dedication: 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>The Best XML Jokes</title>
<info>
<author><personname>
<firstname>A</firstname><surname>Nonymous</surname>
</personname></author>
</info>
<dedication>
<para>To my mother and father, for teaching me to laugh.
</para>
</dedication>
<chapter><title>Parsing Jokes</title>
<para>What did the lexer say to the angle bracket? …
</para>
</chapter>
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</book>