DocBook: The Definitive GuideBy Norman Walsh & Leonard Muellner1st Edition October 1999 1-56592-580-7, Order Number: 5807 652 pages, $36.95 , Includes CD-ROM |
Sect1
Synopsis
Content Model
Sect1 ::= (Sect1Info?, (Title,Subtitle?,TitleAbbrev?), (ToC|LoT|Index|Glossary|Bibliography)*, (((CalloutList|GlossList|ItemizedList|OrderedList|SegmentedList| SimpleList|VariableList|Caution|Important|Note|Tip|Warning| LiteralLayout|ProgramListing|ProgramListingCO|Screen|ScreenCO| ScreenShot|Synopsis|CmdSynopsis|FuncSynopsis|FormalPara|Para| SimPara|Address|BlockQuote|Graphic|GraphicCO|MediaObject| MediaObjectCO|InformalEquation|InformalExample|InformalFigure| InformalTable|Equation|Example|Figure|Table|MsgSet|Procedure| Sidebar|QandASet|Anchor|BridgeHead|Comment|Highlights| Abstract|AuthorBlurb|Epigraph|IndexTerm)+, ((RefEntry)*| Sect2*|SimpleSect*))| (RefEntry)+| Sect2+|SimpleSect+), (ToC|LoT|Index|Glossary|Bibliography)*)Attributes
Name
Type
Default
Label CDATA None Status CDATA None Renderas Enumeration:
Sect2
Sect3
Sect4
Sect5None Tag Minimization
The start-tag is required for this element. The end-tag is optional, if your SGML declaration allows minimization.
Parameter Entities
%bookcomponent.content; Description
Sect1 is one of the top-level sectioning elements in a component. There are three types of sectioning elements in DocBook:
Explicitly numbered sections, Sect1…Sect5, which must be properly nested and can only be five levels deep.
Recursive Sections, which are alternative to the numbered sections and have unbounded depth.
SimpleSects, which are terminal. SimpleSects can occur as the "leaf" sections in either recursive sections or any of the numbered sections, or directly in components.
None of the sectioning elements is allowed to "float" in a component. You can place paragraphs and other block elements before a section, but you cannot place anything after it.
This means that you cannot have content in the Sect1 after the end of a Sect2. This is consistent with the DocBook book model, because in a printed book it is usually impossible for a reader to detect the end of the enclosed second level section and, therefore, all content after a second level section appears in that section.
Children
The following elements occur in Sect1: Abstract, Address, Anchor, AuthorBlurb, Bibliography, BlockQuote, BridgeHead, CalloutList, Caution, CmdSynopsis, Comment, Epigraph, Equation, Example, Figure, FormalPara, FuncSynopsis, Glossary, GlossList, Graphic, GraphicCO, Highlights, Important, Index, IndexTerm, InformalEquation, InformalExample, InformalFigure, InformalTable, ItemizedList, LiteralLayout, LoT, MediaObject, MediaObjectCO, MsgSet, Note, OrderedList, Para, Procedure, ProgramListing, ProgramListingCO, QandASet, RefEntry, Screen, ScreenCO, ScreenShot, Sect1Info, Sect2, SegmentedList, Sidebar, SimPara, SimpleList, SimpleSect, Subtitle, Synopsis, Table, Tip, Title, TitleAbbrev, ToC, VariableList, Warning.
In some contexts, the following elements are allowed anywhere: BeginPage, IndexTerm.
Attributes
- Label
Label specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes.
Generally, an explicit Label attribute is used only if the processing system is incapable of generating the label automatically. If present, the Label is normative; it will used even if the processing system is capable of automatic labelling.
- Renderas
The RenderAs attribute identifies how the section should be rendered. In this way, a section at one level of the structural hierarchy can be made to appear to be at another level.
- Status
Status identifies the editorial or publication status of the Sect1.
Publication status might be used to control formatting (for example, printing a "draft" watermark on drafts) or processing (perhaps a document with a status of "final" should not include any components that are not final).
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