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simpara

Name

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

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

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

Attributes

Common attributes

Parameter Entities

The following parameter entities contain simpara:

Parameter Entities
%admon.mix; %bookcomponent.content; %component.mix;
%divcomponent.mix; %example.mix; %footnote.mix;
%glossdef.mix; %highlights.mix; %indexdivcomponent.mix;
%legalnotice.mix; %para.class; %qandaset.mix;
%refcomponent.mix; %revdescription.mix; %sidebar.mix;
%tabentry.mix; %tbl.entry.mdl; %textobject.mix;

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.

[4.0] 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.

See Also

formalpara, para.

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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