glosslist

glosslist — A wrapper for a list of glossary entries.

Synopsis

glosslist ::= [-]

Attributes

Common attributes (ID required).

Additional attributes:

    Additional Constraints

    • If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.

    Description

    While glossarys are usually limited to component or section boundaries, appearing at the end of a book or chapter, for instance, glosslists can appear anywhere that the other list types are allowed.

    Using a glosslist in running text, instead of a variablelist, for example, maintains the semantic distinction of a glossary. This distinction may be necessary if you want to automatically point to the members of the list with glossterms in the body of the text.

    Processing expectations

    Formatted as a displayed block.

    Attributes

    Common attributes (ID required).

    Parents [+]

    This element occurs in 74 elements.

    Children [+]

    This element contains 64 elements.

    Examples

      1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
      2 <title>Example glosslist</title>
        
      4 <glosslist>
        <glossentry><glossterm>C</glossterm>
      6 <glossdef>
        <para>A procedural programming language invented by K&amp;R.
      8 </para>
        </glossdef>
     10 </glossentry>
        <glossentry><glossterm>Pascal</glossterm>
     12 <glossdef>
        <para>A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.
     14 </para>
        </glossdef>
     16 </glossentry>
        </glosslist>
     18 
        </article>
    C

    A procedural programming language invented by K&R.

    Pascal

    A procedural programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth.

    Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)