dedication — The dedication of a book or other component
annotation
bridgehead
remark
revhistory
informalequation
informalexample
informalfigure
informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable
(db.html.informaltable)A dedication
is a page or section, most often at the very beginning of a book (before any other body matter), containing a tribute to something (frequently someone) in connection with the writing or publication of the book
.
Formatted as a displayed block. Frequently appears on a page by itself at the beginning of a book.
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
The following elements occur in dedication: address
, anchor
, annotation
, bibliolist
, blockquote
, bridgehead
, calloutlist
, caution
, classsynopsis
, cmdsynopsis
, constraintdef
, constructorsynopsis
, destructorsynopsis
, epigraph
, equation
, example
, fieldsynopsis
, figure
, formalpara
, funcsynopsis
, glosslist
, html:form
, important
, indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), info
(db.info),
info
(db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable), informaltable
(db.html.informaltable), itemizedlist
, literallayout
, mediaobject
, methodsynopsis
, msgset
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, procedure
, productionset
, programlisting
, programlistingco
, qandaset
, remark
, revhistory
, screen
, screenco
, screenshot
, segmentedlist
, sidebar
, simpara
, simplelist
, subtitle
, synopsis
, table
(db.cals.table), table
(db.html.table), task
, tip
, title
, titleabbrev
, variablelist
, warning
.
<book xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>The Best XML Jokes</title> <info> <author><personname> <firstname>A</firstname><surname>Nonymous</surname> </personname></author> </info> <dedication> <para>To my mother and father, for teaching me to laugh. </para> </dedication> <chapter><title>Parsing Jokes</title> <para>What did the lexer say to the angle bracket? … </para> </chapter> <!-- ... --> </book>