simpara

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simpara — A paragraph that contains only text and inline markup, no block elements

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

simpara ::=
(#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|biblioref|abbrev|acronym|citation|
 citerefentry|citetitle|citebiblioid|emphasis|firstterm|
 foreignphrase|glossterm|termdef|footnote|phrase|orgname|quote|
 trademark|wordasword|personname|link|olink|ulink|action|
 application|classname|methodname|interfacename|exceptionname|
 ooclass|oointerface|ooexception|package|command|computeroutput|
 database|email|envar|errorcode|errorname|errortype|errortext|
 filename|function|guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|guimenu|guimenuitem|
 guisubmenu|hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|keycombo|keysym|
 literal|code|constant|markup|medialabel|menuchoice|mousebutton|
 option|optional|parameter|prompt|property|replaceable|
 returnvalue|sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|systemitem|uri|
 token|type|userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|author|
 authorinitials|corpauthor|corpcredit|modespec|othercredit|
 productname|productnumber|revhistory|remark|subscript|
 superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|inlineequation|
 synopsis|cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis|
 constructorsynopsis|destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|indexterm|
 beginpage)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Description

A SimPara is a “simple paragraph,” one that may contain only character data and inline elements. The Para element is less restrictive; it may also contain block level structures (lists, figures, and so on).

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

Future Changes

The InterfaceDefinition element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.

Parents

These elements contain simpara: abstract, answer, appendix, article, authorblurb, bibliodiv, bibliography, blockquote, callout, caption, caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, dedication, entry, epigraph, example, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, highlights, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, orderedlist, partintro, personblurb, preface, printhistory, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, revdescription, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, textobject, th, tip, variablelist, warning.

Children

The following elements occur in simpara: abbrev, acronym, action, anchor, application, author, authorinitials, beginpage, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, classname, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, code, command, computeroutput, constant, constructorsynopsis, corpauthor, corpcredit, database, destructorsynopsis, email, emphasis, envar, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, exceptionname, fieldsynopsis, filename, firstterm, footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase, funcsynopsis, function, glossterm, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, indexterm, inlineequation, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, interface, interfacename, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, link, literal, markup, medialabel, menuchoice, methodname, methodsynopsis, modespec, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, orgname, othercredit, package, parameter, personname, phrase, productname, productnumber, prompt, property, quote, remark, replaceable, returnvalue, revhistory, sgmltag, structfield, structname, subscript, superscript, symbol, synopsis, systemitem, termdef, token, trademark, type, ulink, uri, userinput, varname, wordasword, xref.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE simpara PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<simpara>
Just the text, ma'am.
</simpara>

Just the text, ma'am.

For additional examples, see also para.


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