glossary

glossary — A glossary.

Synopsis

Sequence of:
- One of:
  - Sequence of:
    
    Interleave of:
    
    title?
    
    titleabbrev?
    
    subtitle?
    
    info? (db.titleforbidden.info)
  - info? (db.info)
- Zero or more of:
  - bridgehead
  - dialogue
  - drama
  - note
  - poetry
  - remark
  - revhistory
  - Indexing inlines
    
    indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
    
    indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
    
    indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  - Formal elements
    
    equation
    
    example
    
    figure
    
    table
  - Graphic elements
    
    mediaobject
  - Informal elements
    
    informalequation
    
    informalexample
    
    informalfigure
    
    informaltable
  - List elements
    
    bibliolist
    
    calloutlist
    
    glosslist
    
    itemizedlist
    
    orderedlist
    
    procedure
    
    qandaset
    
    simplelist
    
    variablelist
  - Paragraph elements
    
    anchor
    
    formalpara
    
    para
    
    simpara
  - Publishing elements
    
    address
    
    blockquote
    
    epigraph
    
    sidebar
  - Technical elements
    
    procedure
    
    task
  - Verbatim elements
    
    literallayout
- One of:
  - Zero or more of:
    
    glossdiv
  - Zero or more of:
    
    glossentry
- bibliography?

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

label
status

Additional Constraints

Description

A glossary contains a collection of terms and brief descriptions or definitions of those terms.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. A glossary in a book frequently causes a forced page break in print media.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

label: Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
status: Identifies the editorial or publication status of the element on which it occurs

Parents

These elements contain glossary: appendix, article, book, chapter, part, preface, section.

Children

The following elements occur in glossary: address, anchor, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalpara, glossdiv, glossentry, glosslist, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, poetry, procedure, qandaset, remark, revhistory, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, subtitle, table, task, title, titleabbrev, variablelist.

Examples

  1 <glossary xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example Glossary</title>
    
  4 <para>This is not a real glossary, it's just an example.
    </para>
  6 
    <!-- ... -->
  8 
    <glossdiv><title>E</title>
 10 
    <glossentry xml:id="xml"><glossterm>Extensible Markup Language</glossterm>
 12   <acronym>XML</acronym>
    <glossdef>
 14   <para>Some reasonable definition here.</para>
      <glossseealso otherterm="sgml">SGML</glossseealso>
 16 </glossdef>
    </glossentry>
 18 
    </glossdiv>
 20 
    <!-- ... -->
 22 
    <glossdiv><title>S</title>
 24 
    <glossentry><glossterm>SGML</glossterm>
 26 <glosssee otherterm="sgml"/>
    </glossentry>
 28 
    <glossentry xml:id="sgml"><glossterm>Standard Generalized
 30   Markup Language</glossterm><acronym>SGML</acronym>
      <abbrev>ISO 8879:1986</abbrev>
 32 <glossdef>
      <para>Some reasonable definition here.</para>
 34   <glossseealso otherterm="xml">XML</glossseealso>
    </glossdef>
 36 </glossentry>
    
 38 </glossdiv>
    </glossary>

This is not a real glossary, it's just an example.


givenname		glossdef