V5.0acknowledgements
acknowledgements — Acknowledgements of a book or other component.
Synopsis
acknowledgements ::=
- 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
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>