glossary — A glossary
glossary ::=
((((title
? &
titleabbrev
? & subtitle
?),
info
? db.titleforbidden.info) |
info
? db.info), (annotation
|
bridgehead
| remark
|
revhistory
| Indexing inlines | Admonition elements | Formal elements | Graphic elements | Informal elements | List elements | Paragraph elements | Publishing elements | Synopsis elements | Technical elements | Verbatim elements)*,
(glossdiv
* | glossentry
*),
bibliography
?)
A glossary
contains a collection of terms and
brief descriptions or definitions of those terms.
Formatted as a displayed block. A glossary
in
a book
frequently causes a forced page break in
print media.
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes
Identifies the editorial or publication status of the element on which it occurs
<glossary xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example Glossary</title> <para>This is not a real glossary, it's just an example. </para> <!-- ... --> <glossdiv><title>E</title> <glossentry xml:id="xml"><glossterm>Extensible Markup Language</glossterm> <acronym>XML</acronym> <glossdef> <para>Some reasonable definition here.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="sgml">SGML</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glossdiv> <!-- ... --> <glossdiv><title>S</title> <glossentry><glossterm>SGML</glossterm> <glosssee otherterm="sgml"/> </glossentry> <glossentry xml:id="sgml"><glossterm>Standard Generalized Markup Language</glossterm><acronym>SGML</acronym> <abbrev>ISO 8879:1986</abbrev> <glossdef> <para>Some reasonable definition here.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="xml">XML</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glossdiv> </glossary>