footnoteref
footnoteref — A cross reference to a footnote (a footnote mark).
Synopsis
footnoteref ::=
- empty
Additional Constraints
- @linkend on footnoteref must point to a footnote.
Description
This element forms an IDREF link to a
footnote
. It generates the same mark or link as the
footnote
to which it points.
In technical documentation, footnoteref
occurs
most frequently in tables.
Processing expectations
The footnoteref
element usually generates the
same mark as the footnote
to which it points,
although its mark can be influenced by the label
attribute.
Parents
These elements contain footnoteref
: caption
(db.html.caption), citetitle
, emphasis
, entry
, link
, literallayout
, para
, phrase
(db.phrase), programlisting
, quote
, subtitle
, td
, term
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
.
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
|<title>Example footnoteref</title>
||
<informaltable>
5 |<tgroup cols='2'>
|<tbody>
|<row>
|<entry>foo<footnote xml:id='fnrex1a'><para>A meaningless
|word</para></footnote></entry>
10 |<entry>3<footnote xml:id='fnrex1b'><para>A meaningless
|number</para></footnote></entry>
|</row>
|<row>
|<entry>bar<footnoteref linkend='fnrex1a'/></entry>
15 |<entry>5<footnoteref linkend='fnrex1b'/></entry>
|</row>
|</tbody>
|</tgroup>
|</informaltable>
20 ||
</article>