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section — A recursive section
section ::=
addressanchorannotationbibliolistblockquotebridgeheadcalloutlistcautionclasssynopsiscmdsynopsisconstraintdefconstructorsynopsisdestructorsynopsisepigraphequationexamplefieldsynopsisfigureformalparafuncsynopsisglosslisthtml:formimportantindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)informalequationinformalexampleinformalfigureinformaltable (db.cals.informaltable)informaltable (db.html.informaltable)itemizedlistliterallayoutmediaobjectmethodsynopsismsgsetnoteorderedlistparaprocedureproductionsetprogramlistingprogramlistingcoqandasetremarkrevhistoryscreenscreencoscreenshotsegmentedlistsidebarsimparasimplelistsynopsistable (db.cals.table)table (db.html.table)tasktipvariablelistwarningSection is one of the top-level sectioning elements in
a component. There are three types of sectioning elements in
DocBook:
Explicitly numbered sections, Sect1…Sect5,
which must be properly nested and can only be five levels deep.
Recursive Sections, which are an alternative to the numbered
sections and have unbounded depth.
SimpleSects, which are terminal. SimpleSects can
occur as the “leaf” sections in either recursive sections or any
of the numbered sections, or directly in components.
Sections may be more convenient than numbered
sections in some authoring environments because they can be
moved around in the document hierarchy without renaming.
None of the sectioning elements is allowed to “float” in a component. You can place paragraphs and other block elements before a section, but you cannot place anything after it.
Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes sections are numbered.
Use of deeply nested Sections may cause problems
in some processing systems.
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
Identifies the editorial or publication status of the element on which it occurs
The following elements occur in section: address, anchor, annotation, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, caution, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, constraintdef, constructorsynopsis, destructorsynopsis, epigraph, equation, example, fieldsynopsis, figure, formalpara, funcsynopsis, glossary, glosslist, html:form, important, index, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titlereq.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable (db.cals.informaltable), informaltable (db.html.informaltable), itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, methodsynopsis, msgset, note, orderedlist, para, procedure, productionset, programlisting, programlistingco, qandaset, refentry, remark, revhistory, screen, screenco, screenshot, section, segmentedlist, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, simplesect, subtitle, synopsis, table (db.cals.table), table (db.html.table), task, tip, title, titleabbrev, toc, variablelist, warning.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example section</title> <para>This <tag>article</tag> uses recursive sections.</para> <section> <title>Like a Sect1</title> <subtitle>Or How I Learned to Let Go of Enumeration and Love to Recurse</subtitle> <info> <abstract><para>A trivial example of recursive sections.</para> </abstract> </info> <para>This section is like a Sect1.</para> <section><title>Like a Sect2</title> <para>This section is like a Sect2.</para> <section><title>Like a Sect3</title> <para>This section is like a Sect3.</para> <section><title>Like a Sect4</title> <para>This section is like a Sect4.</para> <section><title>Like a Sect5</title> <para>This section is like a Sect5.</para> <section><title>Would be like a Sect6</title> <para>This section would be like a Sect6, if there was one.</para> <section><title>Would be like a Sect7</title> <para>This section would be like a Sect7, if there was one.</para> </section> </section> </section> </section> </section> </section> </section> </article>
This article uses recursive sections.
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