V5.0acknowledgements
acknowledgements — Acknowledgements of a book or other component.
Synopsis
acknowledgements ::=
- Sequence of:
- One of:
- One or more of:
bridgehead
dialogue
drama
formalgroup
poetry
remark
revhistory
stagedir
- 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
The acknowledgements
section of a book or other
component provides the author(s) with a place to identify individuals,
organizations, and other sources of support and to acknowledge their
contributions to the work.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. In books, it usually introduces a forced page break and often starts on the next recto page. In smaller components, such as articles, it may simply appear as another section.
Attributes
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
- label
Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
- status
Identifies the editorial or publication status of the element on which it occurs
Parents
These elements contain acknowledgements
: article
, book
, part
.
Children
The following elements occur in acknowledgements
: 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.info), info
(db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, informaltable
, itemizedlist
, literallayout
, mediaobject
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, poetry
, procedure
, qandaset
, remark
, revhistory
, sidebar
, simpara
, simplelist
, stagedir
, subtitle
, table
, task
, tip
, title
, titleabbrev
, variablelist
, warning
.
Examples
1 |<book xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
|<title>An Example Book</title>
|<info>
|<author><personname>
5 |<firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname>
|</personname></author>
|</info>
||
<acknowledgements>
10 |<para>Many thanks to the hundreds of contributors to the
|example project. In particular, I'd like to thank the following
|individuals, without whose contributions, this work would
|not be half as useful:</para>
|<itemizedlist>
15 |<listitem>
|<para><personname><firstname>A</firstname>
|<surname>Nonymous</surname></personname>, for …
|</para>
|</listitem>
20 |<!-- ... -->
|</itemizedlist>
|</acknowledgements>
||
<chapter><title>A Chapter</title>
25 |<para>The body of the book…</para>
|</chapter>
|</book>