glossentry

$Revision: 1.3 $

$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:11 $

glossentry — An entry in a Glossary or GlossList

Synopsis

Content Model

glossentry ::=
(glossterm,acronym?,abbrev?,
 (indexterm)*,
 revhistory?,
 (glosssee|glossdef+))

Attributes

Common attributes

Name	Type	Default
sortas	CDATA	None

DocBook NG “Bourbon” Content Model

glossentry ::=

Sequence of:

glossterm
acronym?
abbrev?
Zero or more of:

indexterm (indexterm.endofrange)
indexterm (indexterm.singular)
indexterm (indexterm.startofrange)

One of:

One or more of:

glossdef

glosssee

DocBook NG “Bourbon” Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes: (Required attributes, if any, are bold)

sortas

Description

GlossEntry is a wrapper around a glossary term and its definition.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. Glossary entries are usually formatted to highlight the terms and definitions, frequently in a style similar to VarListEntrys.

Parents

These elements contain glossentry: glossary, glossdiv, glosslist.

Children

The following elements occur in glossentry: abbrev, acronym, glossdef, glosssee, glossterm, indexterm, revhistory.

Attributes

sortas: SortAs specifies the string by which the element's content is to be sorted. If unspecified, the proper content is used.

Examples

For examples, see glossary, glosslist.


glossdiv		glosslist