anchor

Processing expectations

Anchor has no content and generally produces no output. It is a link target.

Parents

These elements contain anchor: abbrev, acronym, action, answer, appendix, application, article, attribution, bibliodiv, bibliography, bibliomisc, blockquote, bridgehead, callout, caution, chapter, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, command, computeroutput, constraintdef, database, emphasis, entry, filename, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, glossary, glossdiv, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, hardware, important, index, indexdiv, interfacename, itemizedlist, keycap, label, lineannotation, link, listitem, literal, literallayout, lotentry, manvolnum, member, msgaud, msgexplan, msgtext, note, olink, option, optional, orderedlist, para, parameter, partintro, phrase, preface, primary, primaryie, procedure, productname, programlisting, property, qandadiv, qandaset, question, quote, refentrytitle, refpurpose, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, remark, replaceable, revdescription, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, setindex, sidebar, simpara, simplesect, step, subscript, subtitle, superscript, synopsis, systemitem, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, term, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, tip, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, trademark, ulink, userinput, variablelist, warning, wordasword.

pagenum

PageNum indicates the page on which the anchor occurs in some printed version of the document.

The PageNum attribute does not influence the pagination or page numbering of an SGML application processing the document; it is informative, not declarative.

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
The anchor element<anchor id="example.anchor.1"/> is empty and contributes
nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs.  It is only useful
as a target.
</para>

The anchor element is empty and contributes nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs. It is only useful as a target.