set — A collection of books
A Set
is a collection of Book
s. Placing multiple
Book
s in a Set
, as opposed to publishing each
of them separately, has the advantage that ID/IDREF links can then
be used across all books.
Set
is the very top of the DocBook structural hierarchy.
There's nothing that contains a Set
.
Formatted as a displayed block.
A Set
may generate additional front and back
matter (tables of contents and SetIndex
s, for example) around
the Book
s it contains.
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
<set xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>The Perl Series</title> <info> <author> <orgname>O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.</orgname> </author> </info> <book><title>Learning Perl</title> <chapter><title>...</title><para>...</para></chapter> </book> <book><title>Programming Perl</title> <chapter><title>...</title><para>...</para></chapter> </book> <book><title>Advanced Perl Programming</title> <chapter><title>...</title><para>...</para></chapter> </book> </set>