Name
glosslist — A wrapper for a list of glossary entries
Synopsis
glosslist ::=
((((title? &
titleabbrev?),
info? db.titleforbidden.info) |
info db.titleonly.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)*,
glossentry+)
Description
While glossarys are usually limited to
component or section boundaries, appearing at the end of a
book or chapter, for instance,
glosslists can appear anywhere that the other list
types are allowed.
Using a glosslist in running text, instead of a
variablelist, for example, maintains the semantic
distinction of a glossary. This distinction may be necessary if you want
to automatically point to the members of the list with
glossterms in the body of the text.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example glosslist</title> <glosslist> <glossentry><glossterm>C</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>A programming language invented by K&R. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry><glossterm>Pascal</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>A programming language invented by Niklaus Wirth. </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glosslist> </article>