MsgExplan ::= (Title?, (CalloutList|GlossList|ItemizedList|OrderedList|SegmentedList| SimpleList|VariableList|Caution|Important|Note|Tip|Warning| LiteralLayout|ProgramListing|ProgramListingCO|Screen|ScreenCO| ScreenShot|Synopsis|CmdSynopsis|FuncSynopsis|FormalPara|Para| SimPara|Address|BlockQuote|Graphic|GraphicCO|MediaObject| MediaObjectCO|InformalEquation|InformalExample|InformalFigure| InformalTable|Equation|Example|Figure|Table|MsgSet|Procedure| Sidebar|QandASet|Anchor|BridgeHead|Comment|Highlights|Abstract| AuthorBlurb|Epigraph|IndexTerm)+)
Both the start- and end-tags are required for this element.
A MsgExplan contains some sort of explanatory information about a Msg or a set of Msgs in a MsgEntry.
Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes suppressed.
If a MsgEntry contains multiple Msgs and multiple MsgExplans, DocBook makes no assertions about how they are related.
On the whole, the semantics of MsgSet are not clearly defined.
The following elements occur in MsgExplan: Abstract, Address, Anchor, AuthorBlurb, BlockQuote, BridgeHead, CalloutList, Caution, CmdSynopsis, Comment, Epigraph, Equation, Example, Figure, FormalPara, FuncSynopsis, GlossList, Graphic, GraphicCO, Highlights, Important, IndexTerm, InformalEquation, InformalExample, InformalFigure, InformalTable, ItemizedList, LiteralLayout, MediaObject, MediaObjectCO, MsgSet, Note, OrderedList, Para, Procedure, ProgramListing, ProgramListingCO, QandASet, Screen, ScreenCO, ScreenShot, SegmentedList, Sidebar, SimPara, SimpleList, Synopsis, Table, Tip, Title, VariableList, Warning.
In some contexts, the following elements are allowed anywhere: BeginPage, IndexTerm.
In some contexts, the following elements are excluded: Caution, Equation, Example, Figure, Important, IndexTerm, InformalTable, Note, Table, Tip, Warning.
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