step
step — A unit of action in a procedure.
Synopsis
step ::=
- Sequence of:
- One of:
- One of:
- Sequence of:
- One or more of:
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- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
- Optional sequence of:
- One of:
- Zero or more of:
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- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
result?
- One or more of:
- Sequence of:
- One of:
- Zero or more of:
bridgeheaddialoguedramaformalgrouppoetryremarkrevhistorystagedir- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
result?
- Sequence of:
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
- performance (enumeration)
- “optional”
- “required”
Description
A step identifies a unit of action in a
procedure. If a finer level of granularity is
required for some steps, you can embed substeps in a
step. Embedded substeps contain
steps so that substeps can be nested to any
depth.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. The steps are
almost always numbered.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
- performance
Specifies if the content is required or optional
Enumerated values: “optional” The content describes an optional step or steps.
“required” The content describes a required step or steps.
Parents
These elements contain step: procedure, stepalternatives, substeps.
Children
The following elements occur in step: 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, result, revhistory, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, stagedir, stepalternatives, substeps, table, task, tip, title, titleabbrev, variablelist, warning.