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$Revision: 1.3 $
$Date: 2002/06/12 11:17:59 $
address — A real-world address, generally a postal address
address ::= (#PCDATA|personname|honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername| affiliation|authorblurb|contrib|street|pob|postcode|city|state| country|phone|fax|email|otheraddr)*
Name | Type | Default | |||
| linenumbering |
| None | |||
| language | CDATA | None | |||
| continuation |
| None | |||
| format |
| "linespecific" | |||
| startinglinenumber | CDATA | None |
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes: (Required attributes, if any, are bold)
An address is generally a postal address, although it does contain elements for FAX and Email addresses as well as the catch-all OtherAddr.
The linespecific notation on the Format attribute makes line breaks and other spaces significant in an Address.
Formatted as a displayed block. This element is displayed verbatim; whitespace and linebreaks within this element are significant.
These elements contain address: affiliation, answer, appendix, appendixinfo, article, articleinfo, author, bibliodiv, biblioentry, bibliography, bibliographyinfo, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockinfo, blockquote, bookinfo, callout, caution, chapter, chapterinfo, confgroup, constraintdef, editor, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossaryinfo, glossdef, glossdiv, important, index, indexdiv, indexinfo, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, objectinfo, orderedlist, othercredit, para, partinfo, partintro, preface, prefaceinfo, procedure, publisher, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refentryinfo, referenceinfo, refsect1, refsect1info, refsect2, refsect2info, refsect3, refsect3info, refsection, refsectioninfo, refsynopsisdiv, refsynopsisdivinfo, revdescription, sect1, sect1info, sect2, sect2info, sect3, sect3info, sect4, sect4info, sect5, sect5info, section, sectioninfo, setindex, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebar, sidebarinfo, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, tip, variablelist, warning.
The Format attribute applies the linespecific notation to all Addresses. All white space and line breaks must be preserved.
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Line numbering indicates whether or not the lines
of an Address are to be automatically numbered. The details
of numbering (every line or only selected lines, on the left or right, etc.)
are left up to the processing application. Be aware that not all processors
are capable of numbering lines.
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>An example of a postal mail address in the United States:
<address>
John and Jane Doe
<street>100 Main Street</street>
<city>Anytown</city>, <state>NY</state> <postcode>12345</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
</para>An example of a postal mail address in the United States:
John and Jane Doe
100 Main Street
Anytown, NY 12345
USA
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>An example of a post office box address in the United States:
<address>
<pob>P.O. Box 1234</pob>
<city>Anytown</city>, <state>MA</state> <postcode>12345</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
</para>
An example of a post office box address in the United States:
P.O. Box 1234
Anytown, MA 12345
USA
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>Addresses can also include phone numbers:
<address>
John Smith
<street>100 Pine Blvd</street>
<city>Anytown</city>, <state>NY</state> <postcode>12345</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
<phone>914.555.1212</phone>
<fax>914.555.1212</fax>
</address>
</para>
Addresses can also include phone numbers:
John Smith
100 Pine Blvd
Anytown, NY 12345
USA
914.555.1212
914.555.1212
For additional examples, see also confgroup, otheraddr, publisher.
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