phrase (db.phrase)
phrase — A span of text.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Bibliography inlines
- Error inlines
- Graphic inlines
- GUI inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Keyboard inlines
- Linking inlines
- Markup inlines
- Math inlines
- Object-oriented programming inlines
- Operating system inlines
- Product inlines
- Programming inlines
- Publishing inlines
abbrev
acronym
coref
date
emphasis
(db.emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)firstterm
(db.firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db.foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)glossterm
(db.glossterm)phrase
(db.phrase)quote
(db.quote)subscript
superscript
wordasword
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrev
acronym
alt
anchor
annotation
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
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.
See Also
abbrev
, acronym
, emphasis
, foreignphrase
, phrase
(db._phrase), quote
, wordasword
Examples
<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 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.