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glossary — A glossary
glossary ::=
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)tasktipvariablelistwarningbibliography?A Glossary contains a collection of terms and brief descriptions
or definitions of those terms.
Formatted as a displayed block.
A Glossary in a Book
frequently causes a forced page break in print media.
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
These elements contain glossary: appendix, article, book, chapter, part, preface, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section.
The following elements occur in glossary: address, anchor, annotation, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, caution, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, constraintdef, constructorsynopsis, destructorsynopsis, epigraph, equation, example, fieldsynopsis, figure, formalpara, funcsynopsis, glossdiv, glossentry, glosslist, html:form, important, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.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, remark, revhistory, screen, screenco, screenshot, segmentedlist, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, subtitle, synopsis, table (db.cals.table), table (db.html.table), task, tip, title, titleabbrev, variablelist, warning.
<glossary xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example Glossary</title> <para>This is not a real glossary, it's just an example. </para> <!-- ... --> <glossdiv><title>E</title> <glossentry xml:id="xml"><glossterm>Extensible Markup Language</glossterm> <acronym>XML</acronym> <glossdef> <para>Some reasonable definition here.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="sgml">SGML</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glossdiv> <!-- ... --> <glossdiv><title>S</title> <glossentry><glossterm>SGML</glossterm> <glosssee otherterm="sgml"/> </glossentry> <glossentry xml:id="sgml"><glossterm>Standard Generalized Markup Language</glossterm><acronym>SGML</acronym> <abbrev>ISO 8879:1986</abbrev> <glossdef> <para>Some reasonable definition here.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="xml">XML</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glossdiv> </glossary>
This is not a real glossary, it's just an example.
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