refclass — The scope or other indication of applicability of a reference entry
refclass ::=
(text | application
)*
The refclass
element describes the
applicability or scope of a refentry
. A
refclass
might indicate that the entry was only
applicable to a particular application, for example, or only to a
particular vendor’s operating system.
May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.
Formatting reference pages may require a fairly sophisticated
processing system. Much of the meta-information about a reference page
(its name, type, purpose, title, and classification) is stored in
wrappers near the beginning of the refentry
.
Common presentational features, such as titles and running heads, may require data from several of these wrappers plus some generated text. Other formatting often requires that these elements be reordered.