Name
simplesect — A section of a document with no subdivisions
Synopsis
simplesect ::=
((((title &
titleabbrev? & subtitle?),
info? db.titleforbidden.info) |
info db.titlereq.info),
(annotation | bridgehead |
remark | revhistory | Indexing inlines | Admonition elements | Formal elements | Graphic elements | Informal elements | List elements | Paragraph elements | Publishing elements | Synopsis elements | Technical elements | Verbatim elements)+)
Description
A simplesect is one of the top-level sectioning
elements in a component. There are three types of sectioning elements in
DocBook:
Explicitly numbered sections,
sect1…sect5, which must be properly nested and can only be five levels deep.Recursive
sections, which are alternatives to the numbered sections and have unbounded depth.simplesects, which are terminal. Thesimplesects can occur as the “leaf” sections in either recursive sections or any of the numbered sections, or directly in components.
None of the sectioning elements is allowed to “float” in a component. You can place paragraphs and other block elements before a section, but you cannot place anything after it.
The important semantic distinction of
simplesect elements is that they never appear in the
table of contents.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block. A simplesect
element never appears in the table of
contents.
Attributes
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