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Footnote

Name

Footnote---Contents of a footnote

Synopsis

Content Model
  ((CalloutList | GlossList | ItemizedList | OrderedList
  | SegmentedList | SimpleList | VariableList
  | LiteralLayout | ProgramListing | ProgramListingCO
  | Screen | ScreenCO | ScreenShot | Synopsis | CmdSynopsis
  | FuncSynopsis | FormalPara | Para | SimPara | Address
  | BlockQuote | Graphic | GraphicCO | InformalEquation
  | InformalExample
  | InformalTable)+)
  -(Footnote | Equation | Example | Figure | Table)

Exclusions

Footnote excludes these elements at every level:

  Footnote | Equation | Example | Figure | Table

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Name Value(s) Type Default Value
Label CDATA #IMPLIED  

Tag Minimization

Both the start- and end-tags are required for this element.

Description

Contents of a footnote. The point in the text where the mark for a specific footnote goes is indicated either by FootnoteRef or by the actual placement of the Footnote itself (in which case FootnoteRef may be omitted). Footnote may contain Para, SimPara, BlockQuote, InformalEquation, InformalTable, Graphic, Synopsis, LiteralLayout, ProgramListing, Screen, and any kind of list. It has Label and common attributes.

Parents

These elements contain Footnote: 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.

Children

Footnote contains these elements: Address, BlockQuote, CalloutList, CmdSynopsis, FormalPara, FuncSynopsis, GlossList, Graphic, GraphicCO, InformalEquation, InformalExample, InformalTable, ItemizedList, LiteralLayout, OrderedList, Para, ProgramListing, ProgramListingCO, Screen, ScreenCO, ScreenShot, SegmentedList, SimPara, SimpleList, Synopsis, and VariableList.

In some contexts, some of these elements may be invalid due to exclusions in parent elements.

Attributes

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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