anchor

anchor — A spot in the document

Synopsis

Content Model

anchor ::=

empty

Attributes

Description

An anchor identifies a single spot in the content. This may serve as the target for a cross reference, for example, from a link. The anchor element may occur almost anywhere.

Processing expectations

An anchor has no content and generally produces no output. It is a link target.

Parents

These elements contain anchor: abbrev, abstract, accel, ackno, acronym, address, annotation, answer, appendix, application, arg, article, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, bibliodiv, bibliography, biblioid, bibliolist, bibliomisc, bibliomset, bibliorelation, bibliosource, blockquote, bridgehead, callout, calloutlist, caption (db.caption), caution, chapter, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, classname, classsynopsisinfo, code, colophon, command, computeroutput, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, constant, constraintdef, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, database, dedication, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, envar, epigraph, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, example, exceptionname, fax, figure, filename, firstname, firstterm, footnote, foreignphrase, funcdef, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, holder, honorific, html:button, html:fieldset, html:form, html:label, html:legend, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, informalfigure, initializer, interfacename, issuenum, itemizedlist, jobtitle, keycap, keycode, keysym, label, legalnotice, lineage, lineannotation, link, listitem, literal, literallayout, manvolnum, markup, mathphrase, member, methodname, modifier, mousebutton, msgaud, msgexplan, msglevel, msgorig, msgtext, note, olink, option, optional, orderedlist, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, package, pagenums, para, paramdef, parameter, partintro, personblurb, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, preface, primary, primaryie, printhistory, procedure, productname, productnumber, programlisting, prompt, property, publishername, qandadiv, qandaset, question, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refmiscinfo, refname, refpurpose, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, releaseinfo, remark, replaceable, returnvalue, revdescription, revnumber, revremark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, seriesvolnums, setindex, shortaffil, sidebar, simpara, simplesect, state, step, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, symbol, synopsis, systemitem, tag, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, textobject, th, tip, title, titleabbrev, toc, tocdiv, tocentry, token, trademark, type, uri, userinput, variablelist, varname, volumenum, warning, wordasword, year.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example anchor</title>

<para>The anchor element<anchor xml:id="example.anchor.1"/> is empty and contributes
nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs.  It is only useful
as a target.
</para>

</article>

The anchor element is empty and contributes nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs. It is only useful as a target.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.5 $ published $Date: 2005/11/01 12:21:47 $.


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