V5.0acknowledgements

acknowledgements — Acknowledgements of a book or other component.

Synopsis

Parents
×

acknowledgements ::= × ⏵

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • label
  • status

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

Common attributes and common linking 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

3 elements contain acknowledgements. × ⏵

These elements contain acknowledgements: article, book, part.

Children

50 elements occur in acknowledgements. × ⏵

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>