Sequence of:
- One of:
  - Sequence of:
    Interleave of:
    title?
    titleabbrev?
    info? (db.titleforbidden.info)
  - info (db.titleonly.info)
- Zero 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 Constraints

If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.

Description

The toc element defines a table of contents, or more generally, a list of titles in a document.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

In real life, tocs are usually generated automatically by the presentation system and never have to be represented explicitly in the document source.

Parents

These elements contain toc: appendix, article, book, chapter, part, preface, section, set.

Children

The following elements occur in toc: 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.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

<book xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>DocBook: The Definitive Guide</title>
<subtitle>TOC Markup Example</subtitle>

<toc>
  <title>Table of Contents</title>
  <tocdiv>
    <title>Preface</title>
    <tocentry>Why Read This Book?</tocentry>
    <tocentry>This Book's Audience</tocentry>
    <!-- ... -->
  </tocdiv>
  <tocdiv>
    <title>Part I. Introduction</title>
    <tocdiv>
      <title>Chapter 1. Getting Started with DocBook</title>
      <tocdiv>
        <title>A Short DocBook History</title>
        <tocentry>The HaL and O'Reilly era</tocentry>
        <tocentry>The Davenport era</tocentry>
        <tocentry>The OASIS era</tocentry>
      </tocdiv>
      <tocdiv>
        <title>DocBook V5.0</title>
        <tocdiv>
          <title>What's New in DocBook V5.0?</title>
          <tocentry>Renamed and removed elements</tocentry>
          <!-- ... -->
        </tocdiv>
      </tocdiv>
    </tocdiv>
    <tocdiv>
      <title>Chapter 2. Creating DocBook Documents</title>
      <tocdiv>
        <title>Making an XML Document</title>
        <tocentry>An XML Declaration</tocentry>
        <!-- ... -->
      </tocdiv>
    </tocdiv>
  </tocdiv>
</toc>

<preface>
  <title>Preface</title>
  <para>DocBook provides a system for writing structured documents using
  <acronym>XML</acronym>. …</para>

  <!-- ... -->

  <section>
    <title>Why Read This Book?</title>

    <para>This book is designed to be the clear, concise, normative reference to
    the DocBook schema. This book is the official documentation for DocBook.
    </para>

    <!-- ... -->
  </section>
</preface>

<!-- ... -->

</book>

toc

Synopsis