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FootnoteRef

Name

FootnoteRef---Location of a footnote mark

Synopsis

Content Model
  EMPTY

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Name Value(s) Type Default Value
Label CDATA #IMPLIED  
Linkend IDREF #REQUIRED  

Tag Minimization

The start-tag is required for this element. The end-tag is optional, if your SGML declaration allows minimization.

Description

FootnoteRef identifies the location for a footnote mark. It has no content, and has Linkend, Label, and common attributes. You can use the Label attribute to hold the contents of the mark (such as an asterisk, *, or a number, 84). The Linkend attribute, which is required, should have as its value the ID of the associated Footnote. See Footnote.

Parents

These elements contain FootnoteRef: Application, Attribution, BiblioMisc, BridgeHead, Citation, CiteTitle, Comment, Emphasis, ForeignPhrase, GlossSee, GlossSeeAlso, GlossTerm, LineAnnotation, Link, LiteralLayout, LoTentry, Member, MsgAud, OLink, Para, Phrase, Primary, PrimaryIE, ProductName, ProgramListing, Quote, RefEntryTitle, RefPurpose, Screen, ScreenInfo, Secondary, SecondaryIE, See, SeeAlso, SeeAlsoIE, SeeIE, Seg, SegTitle, SimPara, Subtitle, Synopsis, Term, Tertiary, TertiaryIE, Title, TitleAbbrev, ToCback, ToCentry, ToCfront, ULink, and entry.

Attributes

Linkend

ID of target pointed to by this element.

Label

Label holds an identifying number or string to be output in some manner when the element it is applied to is rendered.

Examples

<PARA>
Citation is a reference to some published work by means
of a reference string, such as <CITATION>Rohmer, 1919</CITATION>;
if you want to refer to a published work by means
of its title, use CiteTitle, as for 
<CITETITLE PUBWORK="book">Tales of Secret Egypt</CITETITLE>
by Sax Rohmer, a book 
full of local color.<FOOTNOTEREF LINKEND="foo123" LABEL="dagger">
<FOOTNOTE ID="foo123">
<PARA>Published at the height of the Egyptology craze.</PARA>
</FOOTNOTE>
</PARA>


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