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Highlights

Name

Highlights---List of main points discussed in a book component such as a Chapter

Synopsis

Content Model
  ((CalloutList | GlossList | ItemizedList | OrderedList
  | SegmentedList | SimpleList | VariableList | Caution
  | Important | Note | Tip | Warning | FormalPara | Para
  | SimPara)+)
  -(IndexTerm | BeginPage | Equation | Example | Figure
  | Table)

Exclusions

Highlights excludes these elements at every level:

  IndexTerm | BeginPage | Equation | Example | Figure | Table

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Tag Minimization

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

Description

List of main points discussed in a book component such as a Chapter. It may contain paragraphs, lists, and admonitions, and has common attributes.

Parents

These elements contain Highlights: Appendix, Article, BiblioDiv, Bibliography, BlockQuote, Callout, Chapter, GlossDiv, Glossary, Index, ListItem, MsgExplan, MsgText, PartIntro, Preface, Procedure, RefSect1, RefSect2, RefSect3, RefSynopsisDiv, Sect1, Sect2, Sect3, Sect4, Sect5, SetIndex, Sidebar, SimpleSect, and Step.

Children

Highlights contains these elements: CalloutList, Caution, FormalPara, GlossList, Important, ItemizedList, Note, OrderedList, Para, SegmentedList, SimPara, SimpleList, Tip, VariableList, and Warning.

In some contexts, additional elements may be allowed by inclusions in parent elements. Similarly, in some contexts, some of these elements may be invalid due to exclusions in parent elements.

Examples

<CHAPTER LABEL="II">
<TITLE>A Chapter Devoted to Hierarchy</TITLE>
<TITLEABBREV>Hierarchy</TITLEABBREV>
<TOCCHAP>
<TOCENTRY>Hierarchy</TOCENTRY>
<TOCLEVEL1>
<TOCENTRY>Lonely at the Top</TOCENTRY>
</TOCLEVEL1>
<TOCLEVEL1>
<TOCENTRY>A Gravid Section</TOCENTRY>
</TOCLEVEL1>
</TOCCHAP>
<EPIGRAPH>
<ATTRIBUTION>Benjamin Franklin</ATTRIBUTION>
<PARA>In going on with these experiments, how many pretty systems do we build,
which we soon find ourselves obliged to destroy?</PARA>
</EPIGRAPH>
<HIGHLIGHTS>
<SIMPLELIST>
<MEMBER>Best of the Top</MEMBER>
<MEMBER>Best of the Middle</MEMBER>
<MEMBER>Best of the Bottom</MEMBER>
</SIMPLELIST>
</HIGHLIGHTS>
<SECT1
<TITLE>Lonely at the Top</TITLE>
<FORMALPARA>
<TITLE>A Formal Paragraph</TITLE>
<PARA>A short paragraph, but a formal one.</PARA>
</FORMALPARA>
<SIMPLESECT>
<TITLE>Don't Delve Deeper</TITLE>
<PARA>SimpleSects can't contain other Sects.
</PARA>
</SIMPLESECT>
</SECT1>
<SECT1>
<TITLE>A Gravid Section</TITLE>
<PARA>A short paragraph.</PARA>
<SECT2>
<TITLE>Under the Forest Canopy</TITLE>
<GLOSSARY>
<GLOSSENTRY>
<GLOSSTERM>fum
</GLOSSTERM>
<GLOSSDEF><PARA>Syllable following "fee, fie, fo"</PARA>
</GLOSSDEF>
</GLOSSENTRY>
</GLOSSARY>
<SIMPARA>A short, simple paragraph that can't contain
blocklike objects.</SIMPARA>
<BRIDGEHEAD RENDERAS="sect4">Down to Brass Tacks</BRIDGEHEAD>
<PARA>A short paragraph.</PARA>
<BRIDGEHEAD RENDERAS="sect4">Brass Tacks and Brass Tasks</BRIDGEHEAD>
<PARA>A short paragraph.</PARA>
<SECT3>
<TITLE>Delving Deeper</TITLE>
<PARA>A short paragraph.</PARA>
<SECT4>
<TITLE>We Like Short Sections</TITLE>
<PARA>A short paragraph.</PARA>
<SIDEBAR>
<TITLE>Feeling Out of the Flow?</TITLE>
<PARA>That's because you're in a Sidebar.</PARA>
</SIDEBAR>
<SECT5 RENDERAS="sect4">
<TITLE>Some Writers are Compulsive</TITLE>
<PARA>A short paragraph.</PARA>
</SECT5>
</SECT4>
</SECT3>
</SECT2>
</SECT1>
<BIBLIOGRAPHY>
<BIBLIOENTRY>
<BOOKBIBLIO>
<TITLE>Recursive Tooth Exercises
</TITLE>
<AUTHORGROUP>
<CORPAUTHOR>The Incisor Group
</CORPAUTHOR>
</AUTHORGROUP>
</BOOKBIBLIO>
</BIBLIOENTRY>
</BIBLIOGRAPHY>
<INDEX></INDEX>
</CHAPTER>


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