article

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. Frequently causes a forced page break in print media. May be numbered separately and presented in the table of contents.

Future Changes

The ToC element in the content model may be replaced by TocChap. This change may be delayed if the DocBook technical committee decides to review the whole ToC/LoT apparatus.

Parents

These elements contain article: book, part.

Children

The following elements occur in article: abstract, ackno, address, anchor, appendix, articleinfo, authorblurb, beginpage, bibliography, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, caution, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, constraintdef, constructorsynopsis, destructorsynopsis, epigraph, equation, example, fieldsynopsis, figure, formalpara, funcsynopsis, glossary, glosslist, graphic, graphicco, highlights, important, index, indexterm, informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, lot, mediaobject, mediaobjectco, methodsynopsis, msgset, note, orderedlist, para, procedure, productionset, programlisting, programlistingco, qandaset, refentry, remark, screen, screenco, screenshot, sect1, section, segmentedlist, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, simplesect, subtitle, synopsis, table, task, tip, title, titleabbrev, toc, tocchap, variablelist, warning.

class

Class identifies the type of article.

parentbook

ParentBook holds the ID of an enclosing Book, if applicable.

status

Status identifies the editorial or publication status of the Article.

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).

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<article>
<articleinfo>
  <author><firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname></author>
  <authorinitials>ndw</authorinitials>
  <artpagenums>339-343</artpagenums>
  <volumenum>15</volumenum>
  <issuenum>3</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The TeX User's Group</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>1994</pubdate>
  <title>A World Wide Web Interface to CTAN</title>
  <titleabbrev>CTAN-Web</titleabbrev>
  <revhistory>
     <revision>
        <revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
        <date>28 Mar 1994</date>
        <revremark>Submitted.</revremark>
     </revision>
     <revision>
        <revnumber>0.5</revnumber>
        <date>15 Feb 1994</date>
        <revremark>First draft for review.</revremark>
     </revision>
  </revhistory>
</articleinfo>
<para>
The body of the article &hellip;
</para>
</article>