appendix
appendix — An appendix in a book or article.
Synopsis
appendix ::=
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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
- Optionally one of:
- Sequence of:
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Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
Appendixes usually occur at the end of a document.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. Usually introduces a forced page break and often starts on the next recto page. Sometimes restarts page numbering. Typically, appendixes are lettered rather than numbered, and appear in the table of contents.
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
Children
The following elements occur in appendix
: address
, anchor
, bibliography
, bibliolist
, blockquote
, bridgehead
, calloutlist
, caution
, danger
, dialogue
, drama
, epigraph
, equation
, example
, figure
, formalgroup
, formalpara
, glossary
, glosslist
, important
, index
, indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), info
(db.titleforbidden.info), info
(db.titlereq.info), informalequation
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, informaltable
, itemizedlist
, literallayout
, mediaobject
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, poetry
, procedure
, qandaset
, remark
, revhistory
, section
, sidebar
, simpara
, simplelist
, simplesect
, stagedir
, subtitle
, table
, task
, tip
, title
, titleabbrev
, toc
, variablelist
, warning
.
See Also
Related elements: article
, book
, chapter
, colophon
, dedication
, part
, partintro
, preface
, set
.
Examples
1 |<book xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
|<title>Example book</title>
||
<chapter>
5 |<title>Required Chapter</title>
||
<para>At least one chapter, reference, part, or article is required in
|a book.
|</para>
10 ||
</chapter>
||
<appendix>
|<title>Demonstration Appendix</title>
15 ||
<para>This appendix demonstrates an appendix in a book. It has the
|same broad content model as a chapter.
|</para>
|20 |
</appendix>
|</book>