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Important

Name

Important---Admonition set off from the text

Synopsis

Content Model
  (Title?, (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 | Equation | Example
  | Figure | Table | Procedure | Sidebar | Anchor | BridgeHead
  | Comment)+)
  -(Caution | Important | Note | Tip | Warning)

Exclusions

Important excludes these elements at every level:

  Caution | Important | Note | Tip | Warning

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Tag Minimization

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

Description

Important is an admonition set off from the text, as are the other admonitions, Tip, Note, Caution, and Warning. Its contents may include paragraphs, lists, and so forth, but not other admonitions. It has common attributes.

Parents

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

Children

Important contains these elements: Address, Anchor, BlockQuote, BridgeHead, CalloutList, CmdSynopsis, Comment, Equation, Example, Figure, FormalPara, FuncSynopsis, GlossList, Graphic, GraphicCO, InformalEquation, InformalExample, InformalTable, ItemizedList, LiteralLayout, OrderedList, Para, Procedure, ProgramListing, ProgramListingCO, Screen, ScreenCO, ScreenShot, SegmentedList, Sidebar, SimPara, SimpleList, Synopsis, Table, Title, and VariableList.

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

<IMPORTANT>
<PARA>You must pay attention to your keystrokes, else
you may commit a typo</PARA>
</IMPORTANT>


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