errortext — An error message.
phrase
(db._phrase)replaceable
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
remark
subscript
superscript
xref
An errortext
holds the text of an error message.
DocBook provides four elements for identifying the parts of an error message: errorcode
, for the alphanumeric error code (e.g., “-2”); errorname
, for the symbolic name of the error (e.g., “ENOENT”); errortext
, for the text of the error message (e.g.,
“file not found”); and errortype
, for the error type (e.g., “recoverable”).
Prior to DocBook V4.2, the errorname
element was the recommended element for error messages. However, this left no element for symoblic names, so the errortext
element was added and the semantics of the error elements adjusted slightly.
These elements contain errortext
: bridgehead
, caption
(db.html.caption), citation
, citetitle
, classsynopsisinfo
, emphasis
(db.emphasis), entry
, firstterm
, funcsynopsisinfo
, glosssee
, glossseealso
, glossterm
, html:button
, html:label
, html:legend
, link
,
literallayout
, member
, olink
, orgdiv
, para
, phrase
(db.phrase), primary
, primaryie
, programlisting
, quote
, refdescriptor
, refentrytitle
, refname
, refpurpose
, screen
, secondary
, secondaryie
, see
, seealso
, seealsoie
, seeie
, seg
, segtitle
, simpara
, subtitle
, synopsis
, td
, term
, termdef
, tertiary
, tertiaryie
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, tocentry
.
The following elements occur in errortext: text, alt
, anchor
, annotation
, biblioref
, indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject
, link
, olink
, phrase
(db._phrase), remark
, replaceable
, subscript
, superscript
, xref
.