tocfront

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$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:41 $

tocfront — An entry in a table of contents for a front matter component

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

tocfront ::=
(#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|abbrev|acronym|citation|citerefentry|
 citetitle|emphasis|firstterm|foreignphrase|glossterm|footnote|
 phrase|orgname|quote|trademark|wordasword|personname|link|olink|
 ulink|action|application|classname|methodname|interfacename|
 exceptionname|ooclass|oointerface|ooexception|command|
 computeroutput|database|email|envar|errorcode|errorname|
 errortype|errortext|filename|function|guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|
 guimenu|guimenuitem|guisubmenu|hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|
 keycombo|keysym|literal|code|constant|markup|medialabel|
 menuchoice|mousebutton|option|optional|parameter|prompt|property|
 replaceable|returnvalue|sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|
 systemitem|uri|token|type|userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|
 author|authorinitials|corpauthor|corpcredit|modespec|othercredit|
 productname|productnumber|revhistory|remark|subscript|
 superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|inlineequation|
 synopsis|cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis|
 constructorsynopsis|destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|indexterm|
 beginpage)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Name

Type

Default

pagenumCDATANone
labelCDATANone
linkendIDREFNone

DocBook NG “Bourbon” Content Model

This element does not occur.

Description

The ToCfront element is a chapter-level ToC element for front matter such as Prefaces.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

In real life, ToCs are usually generated automatically by the presentation system and never have to be represented explicitly in the document source.

Future Changes

The InterfaceDefinition element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.

Parents

These elements contain tocfront: toc.

Attributes

label

Label specifies an identifying number or string that may be used in presentation.

Generally, an explicit Label attribute is used only if the processing system is incapable of generating the label automatically. If present, the Label is normative; it will used even if the processing system is capable of automatic labelling.

linkend

Linkend points to the associated front matter element.

pagenum

PageNum indicates the page on which the element of frontmatter appears in som version of the printed document.

Examples

For examples, see toc.