phrase (db.phrase)
phrase — A span of text.
Synopsis
phrase (db.phrase) ::=
- Zero or more of:
- text
html:button
html:fieldset
html:input
html:label
html:select
html:textarea
- Bibliography inlines
- Computer-output inlines
- Graphic inlines
- Linking inlines
- Markup inlines
- Operating system inlines
- Product inlines
- Publishing inlines
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
- User-input inlines
Attributes
Description
The phrase
element in DocBook has no specific
semantic. It is provided as a wrapper around a selection of words
smaller than a paragraph so that it is possible to provide an xml:id
or other attributes for it.
For example, if you are making note of changes to a document using
one of the effectivity attributes, you might use
phrase
to mark up specific sentences with
revisions.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
Parents
These elements contain phrase
: caption
(db.html.caption), citetitle
, emphasis
, entry
, html:button
, html:label
, html:legend
, link
(db.link), literallayout
, para
, phrase
(db.phrase), programlisting
, quote
, rddl:resource
, subtitle
, summary
, td
, term
, textobject
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
.
Children
The following elements occur in phrase
: text, abbrev
, acronym
, author
, citetitle
, command
, computeroutput
, editor
, email
, emphasis
, filename
, footnote
, footnoteref
, html:button
, html:fieldset
, html:input
, html:label
, html:select
, html:textarea
, inlinemediaobject
, link
(db.link), literal
, option
, orgname
, personname
, phrase
(db.phrase), quote
, rddl:resource
, replaceable
, subscript
, superscript
, systemitem
, trademark
, userinput
, xref
.
See Also
Related elements: abbrev
, acronym
, emphasis
, phrase
(db._phrase), quote
.
Examples
1 |<para xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>Effectivity attributes can
|be used to keep track of modifications to a document
|<phrase revisionflag="deleted">at the word or sentence level</phrase>
|<phrase revisionflag="added"> as long as the number and complexity of changes
5 |is not too high</phrase>.
|</para>
Effectivity attributes can be used to keep track of modifications to a document at the word or sentence level as long as the number and complexity of changes is not too high.