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DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide
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DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide

by Norman Walsh, Richard L. Hamilton
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 37m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

inlinemediaobject — An inline media object (video, audio, image, etc.)

Synopsis

inlinemediaobject ::= (info? db.titleforbidden.info, alt?, (audioobject | imageobject | imageobjectco | textobject | videoobject)+)

Description

The inlinemediaobject element contains a set of alternative “graphical objects”: videoobject, audioobject, and imageobject. Additional textual descriptions may be provided with textobjects.

An inlinemediaobject provides a wrapper for a set of alternative presentations for some, usually graphical, information. It is the “inline” equivalent of mediaobject.

In almost all contexts where text is allowed, inlinemediaobject is also allowed. This allows an author to provide a graphic for a character or glyph—for example, one that is not available in the publisher’s fonts or perhaps is not available in Unicode. Authors should exercise care when using inlinemediaobject for this purpose as graphics may be difficult or impossible to display in some contexts on some presentation systems.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

If possible, the processing system should use the content of the first object within the inlinemediaobject. If the first object cannot be used, the remaining objects should be considered in the order that they occur. A processor should use the first object that it can, although it is free to choose any of the remaining objects if the primary one cannot be used.

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