abstract
abstract — A summary.
Synopsis
abstract ::=
- Sequence of:
- One of:
- One or more of:
bridgeheaddialoguedramaformalgrouppoetryremarkrevhistorystagedir- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
An abstract can occur in most components of DocBook. It is expected to contain some sort of summary of the content with which it is associated (by containment).
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes suppressed. Often presented in alternate outputs.
Parents
These elements contain abstract: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info).
Children
The following elements occur in abstract: address, anchor, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, caution, danger, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalgroup, formalpara, glosslist, important, 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, stagedir, table, task, tip, title, titleabbrev, variablelist, warning.
See Also
Related elements: blockquote, epigraph, sidebar.
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>|<info>|<title>Example abstract</title>|<abstract>5 |<para>In brief, …|</para>|</abstract>|</info>|10 |<para>…</para>||</article>