reference — A collection of reference entries
A Reference
is a collection of
RefEntry
s. In a Book
, a
Reference
can occur at either the Part
or Chapter
level.
Reference pages are usually bound together by topic; in traditional
UNIX documentation they are most frequently bound into volumes. See
ManVolNum
.
Formatted as a displayed block.
A reference
often introduce a forced
page break and may start on the next recto page. Frequently,
they also produce a separator page, on which may be printed the
content of the partintro
.
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
<reference xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Reference Pages</title> <refentry> <refnamediv> <refdescriptor>GNU as</refdescriptor> <refname>as</refname> <refpurpose>the portable GNU assembler</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv><title>SYNOPSIS</title> <synopsis>...</synopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title> <para>...</para> </refsect1> </refentry> <refentry> <refnamediv> <refname>awk</refname> <refpurpose>pattern scanning and text processing language</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv><title>SYNOPSIS</title> <synopsis>...</synopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title> <para>...</para> </refsect1> </refentry> <!-- ... --> </reference>