abstract

abstract — A summary

Synopsis

Content Model

abstract ::=

Sequence of:
- One of:
  - Sequence of:
    Interleave of:
    title?
    titleabbrev?
    info? (db.titleforbidden.info)
  - info (db.titleonly.info)
- One or more of:

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

An abstract can occur in most components of DocBook. It is expected to contain some sort of summary of the content with which it is associated (by containment).

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes suppressed. Often presented in alternate outputs.

Parents

These elements contain abstract: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info).

Children

The following elements occur in abstract: anchor, formalpara, info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), para, simpara, title, titleabbrev.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<info>
  <title>Example abstract</title>
  <abstract>
    <para>In brief, …
    </para>
  </abstract>
</info>

<para>…</para>

</article>

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/07/07 16:40:18 $.


abbrev		accel