abstract

abstract — A summary.

Synopsis

abstract ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

An abstract can occur in most components of DocBook. It is expected to contain some sort of summary of the content with which it is associated (by containment).

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes suppressed. Often presented in alternate outputs.

Parents

These elements contain abstract: bibliomixed, bibliomset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info).

Children

The following elements occur in abstract: blockquote, epigraph, example, figure, info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), informaltable (db.cals.informaltable), informaltable (db.html.informaltable), itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, programlisting, revhistory, sidebar, table (db.cals.table), table (db.html.table), title, titleabbrev, variablelist.

See Also

Related elements: blockquote, epigraph, sidebar.

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<info>
   |  <title>Example abstract</title>
   |  <abstract>
 5 |    <para>In brief, …
   |    </para>
   |  </abstract>
   |</info>
   | 
10 |<para>…</para>
   | 
   |</article>