abstract

abstract — A summary

Synopsis

abstract ::=

Sequence of:
- One of:
  - Sequence of:
    
    Interleave of:
    
    title?
    
    titleabbrev?
    
    info? (db.titleforbidden.info)
  - info (db.titleonly.info)
- One or more of:
  - Paragraph elements
    
    anchor
    
    formalpara
    
    para
    
    simpara

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

An abstract can occur in most components of DocBook. It is expected to contain some sort of summary of the content with which it is associated (by containment).

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes suppressed. Often presented in alternate outputs.

Parents

These elements contain abstract: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info).

Children

The following elements occur in abstract: anchor, formalpara, info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), para, simpara, title, titleabbrev.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<info>
  <title>Example abstract</title>
  <abstract>
    <para>In brief, …
    </para>
  </abstract>
</info>

<para>…</para>

</article>

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 7120 $ published Sun, 22 Jul 2007.


abbrev		accel