task

task — A task to be completed.

Synopsis

task ::=

Attributes

Common attributes (ID required).

Additional attributes:

    Additional Constraints

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

    Description

    A task encapsulates a procedure providing an explicit location for summary information, identifying prerequisites for the task, examples, and pointers to related information.

    Processing expectations

    Formatted as a displayed block.

    Attributes

    Common attributes (ID required).

    Parents [+]

    This element occurs in 74 elements.

    Children

    The following elements occur in task: example, info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titlereq.info), procedure, subtitle, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, title, titleabbrev.

    Examples

      1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
      2   <title>Example task</title>
          <task>
      4     <title>Changing a light bulb</title>
            <tasksummary>
      6       <para>How to change a light bulb</para>
            </tasksummary>
      8     <taskprerequisites>
              <para>Make sure you have a new light bulb.</para>
     10       <para>Make sure you have turned off the light switch.</para>
            </taskprerequisites>
     12     <procedure>
              <step><para>Remove the old light bulb.</para></step>
     14       <step><para>Insert the new light bulb.</para></step>
              <step><para>Turn on the new light bulb.</para></step>
     16       <step><para>Throw away the old light bulb.</para></step>
            </procedure>
     18   </task>
        
     20 </article>
    Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)