glosslist
glosslist — A wrapper for a list of glossary entries.
Synopsis
- Sequence of:
- Optionally one of:
- Zero or more of:
annotation
bridgehead
remark
revhistory
- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
informalequation
informalexample
informalfigure
informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable
(db.html.informaltable)
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Synopsis elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
- One or more of:
- Optionally one of:
Attributes
Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
While glossary
s are usually limited to
component or section boundaries, appearing at the end of a
book
or chapter
, for instance,
glosslist
s can appear anywhere that the other list
types are allowed.
Using a glosslist
in running text, instead of a
variablelist
, for example, maintains the semantic
distinction of a glossary. This distinction may be necessary if you want
to automatically point to the members of the list with
glossterm
s in the body of the text.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example glosslist</title> <glosslist> <glossentry><glossterm>C</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>A procedural programming language invented by K&R. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry><glossterm>Pascal</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glosslist> </article>
- C
A procedural programming language invented by K&R.
- Pascal
A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.