Formatted inline. The uri element does not automatically generate a link to the URI it identifies.

DocBook does not mandate any values for the type attribute, but several useful values have been suggested:

• xmlnamespace for an XML namespace name; for example, http://docbook.org/ns/docbook

• saxfeaturename for a SAX feature name; for example, http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces

• saxpropertyname for a SAX property name; for example, http://xml.org/sax/properties/declaration-handler

• soapaction for a SOAP action; see SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts

• rddlpurpose for an RDDL purpose; see Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)

• rddlnature for an RDDL nature; see Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)

• homepage for a home page; for example, http://nwalsh.com/

• weblog for a web log; for example, http://norman.walsh.name/

• webpage for a web page; for example, http://docbook.org/schemas/

• website for a website; for example, http://docbook.org

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

type

Identifies the type of URI specified

These elements contain uri: address, author, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, contrib, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), inlinestagedir, line, link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, org, orgdiv, othercredit, para, person, phrase (db.phrase), primary, quote (db.quote), remark, secondary, see, seealso, simpara, subtitle, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev.

The following elements occur in uri: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.