Formatted inline. An email may generate surrounding punctuation, such as angle brackets. This is an interchange issue. See Appendix C, Interchanging DocBook Documents.

In some processing environments, email may automatically generate a hypertext link (a mailto: URL).

In an address, this element may inherit the verbatim qualities of an address.

These elements contain email: address, author, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), line, link, literallayout, member, olink, org, orgdiv, othercredit, para, person, phrase (db.phrase), primary, quote (db.quote), remark, secondary, see, seealso, simpara, subtitle, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev.

The following elements occur in email: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.