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address

Name

address — A real-world address, generally a postal address

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

address ::=
(#PCDATA|honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|
 affiliation|authorblurb|contrib|street|pob|postcode|city|state|
 country|phone|fax|email|otheraddr)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Name

Type

Default
format

Enumerated notation:

linespecific
 "linespecific"
linenumbering

Enumeration:

numbered
unnumbered
 None

Parameter Entities

The following parameter entities contain address:

Parameter Entities
%admon.mix; %bibliocomponent.mix; %bookcomponent.content;
%component.mix; %divcomponent.mix; %example.mix;
%figure.mix; %footnote.mix; %glossdef.mix;
%indexdivcomponent.mix; %informal.class; %para.mix;
%qandaset.mix; %refcomponent.mix; %revdescription.mix;
%sidebar.mix;    

Description

An address is generally a postal address, although it does contain elements for FAX and Email addresses as well as the catch-all OtherAddr.

The linespecific notation on the Format attribute makes line breaks and other spaces significant in an Address.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. This element is displayed “verbatim”; whitespace and linebreaks within this element are significant.

[5.0] Future Changes

The xml:space attribute is automatically provided in the XML DTD.

Parents

These elements contain address: affiliation, answer, appendix, appendixinfo, article, articleinfo, bibliodiv, biblioentry, bibliography, bibliographyinfo, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockquote, bookinfo, callout, caution, chapter, chapterinfo, confgroup, constraintdef, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossaryinfo, glossdef, glossdiv, important, index, indexdiv, indexinfo, informalexample, informalfigure, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, objectinfo, para, partinfo, partintro, preface, prefaceinfo, procedure, publisher, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refentryinfo, referenceinfo, refsect1, refsect1info, refsect2, refsect2info, refsect3, refsect3info, refsynopsisdiv, refsynopsisdivinfo, revdescription, sect1, sect1info, sect2, sect2info, sect3, sect3info, sect4, sect4info, sect5, sect5info, section, sectioninfo, setindex, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebar, sidebarinfo, simplesect, step, tip, warning.

Children

The following elements occur in address: affiliation, authorblurb, city, contrib, country, email, fax, firstname, honorific, lineage, otheraddr, othername, phone, pob, postcode, state, street, surname.

Attributes

format

The Format attribute applies the linespecific notation to all Addresses. All white space and line breaks must be preserved.

linenumbering

[4.0]Line numbering indicates whether or not the lines of an Address are to be automatically numbered. The details of numbering (every line or only selected lines, on the left or right, etc.) are left up to the processing application. Be aware that not all processors are capable of numbering lines.

See Also

city, country, email, fax, otheraddr, phone, pob, postcode, state, street.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
An example of a postal mail address in the United States is:
<address>
John and Jane Doe
<street>100 Main Street</street>
<city>Anytown</city>, <state>NY</state> <postcode>12345</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
</para>

An example of a postal mail address in the United States is:


John and Jane Doe
100 Main Street
Anytown, NY 12345
USA

For additional examples, see also bookinfo, confgroup, publisher .

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