glosslist
glosslist — A wrapper for a list of glossary entries.
Synopsis
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- Sequence of:
- Optionally one of:
- Zero 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 or more of:
- Optionally one of:
Attributes
Description
While glossarys are usually limited to
component or section boundaries, appearing at the end of a
book or chapter, for instance,
glosslists can appear anywhere that the other list
types are allowed.
Using a glosslist in running text, instead of a
variablelist, for example, maintains the semantic
distinction of a glossary. This distinction may be necessary if you want
to automatically point to the members of the list with
glossterms in the body of the text.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block.
Parents
These elements contain glosslist: acknowledgements, answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, callout, calloutlist, caption, chapter, colophon, cover, dedication, dialogue, drama, entry, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, index, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, linegroup, listitem, note, orderedlist, para, partintro, poetry, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, revdescription, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, textobject, toc, variablelist.
Children
The following elements occur in glosslist: address, anchor, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalpara, glossentry, glosslist, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, poetry, procedure, qandaset, remark, revhistory, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, table, task, title, titleabbrev, variablelist.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example glosslist</title>
<glosslist>
<glossentry><glossterm>C</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A procedural programming language invented by K&R.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Pascal</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glosslist>
</article>
- C
A procedural programming language invented by K&R.
- Pascal
A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.