footnoteref
footnoteref — A cross reference to a footnote (a footnote mark).
Synopsis
footnoteref ::=
- empty
Attributes
Additional Constraints
- @linkend on footnoteref must point to a footnote.
Description
This element forms an IDREF link to a
footnote. It generates the same mark or link as the
footnote to which it points.
In technical documentation, footnoteref occurs
most frequently in tables.
Processing expectations
The footnoteref element usually generates the
same mark as the footnote to which it points,
although its mark can be influenced by the label attribute.
Attributes
- label
Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
Parents
These elements contain footnoteref: abbrev, acronym, address, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, biblioentry, biblioid, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, biblioset, bibliosource, bridgehead, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, fax, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), givenname, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, issuenum, jobtitle, label, line, lineage, link, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, olink, optional, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, primary, productname, productnumber, publishername, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, revnumber, revremark, secondary, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, shortaffil, simpara, state, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev, trademark, uri, volumenum, wordasword, year.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example footnoteref</title>
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols='2'>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>foo<footnote xml:id='fnrex1a'><para>A meaningless
word</para></footnote></entry>
<entry>3<footnote xml:id='fnrex1b'><para>A meaningless
number</para></footnote></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>bar<footnoteref linkend='fnrex1a'/></entry>
<entry>5<footnoteref linkend='fnrex1b'/></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</article>