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ListItem

Name

ListItem---Wrapper for the elements of items in an ItemizedList or OrderedList

Synopsis

Content Model
  (CalloutList | GlossList | ItemizedList | OrderedList
  | SegmentedList | SimpleList | VariableList | Caution
  | Important | Note | Tip | Warning | LiteralLayout
  | ProgramListing | ProgramListingCO | Screen | ScreenCO
  | ScreenShot | Synopsis | CmdSynopsis | FuncSynopsis
  | FormalPara | Para | SimPara | Address | BlockQuote
  | Graphic | GraphicCO | InformalEquation
  | InformalExample | InformalTable | Equation | Example
  | Figure | Table | MsgSet | Procedure | Sidebar | Anchor
  | BridgeHead | Comment | Highlights | Abstract
  | AuthorBlurb
  | Epigraph)+

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

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

Tag Minimization

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

Description

Wrapper for the elements of items in an ItemizedList or OrderedList; it also occurs within VarListEntry in VariableList. It may contain just about anything except Sects and book components. It has common attributes and an Override attribute, which may have any of the values of ItemizedList's Mark attribute; use Override to override the mark set at the ItemizedList level, when you desire to create ItemizedLists with varying marks.

Parents

These elements contain ListItem: ItemizedList, OrderedList, and VarListEntry.

Children

ListItem contains these elements: Abstract, Address, Anchor, AuthorBlurb, BlockQuote, BridgeHead, CalloutList, Caution, CmdSynopsis, Comment, Epigraph, Equation, Example, Figure, FormalPara, FuncSynopsis, GlossList, Graphic, GraphicCO, Highlights, Important, InformalEquation, InformalExample, InformalTable, ItemizedList, LiteralLayout, MsgSet, Note, OrderedList, Para, Procedure, ProgramListing, ProgramListingCO, Screen, ScreenCO, ScreenShot, SegmentedList, Sidebar, SimPara, SimpleList, Synopsis, Table, Tip, VariableList, and Warning.

Attributes

Override

Override indicates the mark to be used for this ListItem instead of the default mark or the mark specified by the Mark attribute on the enclosing ItemizedList. It holds a keyword.

Examples

<ITEMIZEDLIST MARK="bullet" SPACING="compact">
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>This ItemizedList contains two short ListItems.
</PARA>
<PARA>For that reason, the Spacing attribute has been set to 
indicate that vertical spacing should be decreased from the default.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>The Mark attribute indicates that the ListItems should be
preceded by bullets.
</PARA>
<ITEMIZEDLIST MARK="dash">
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>This is an ItemizedList nested within the outer ItemizedList.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>Instead of using the two attributes shown, solve these
issues in your style sheet.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
</ITEMIZEDLIST>
</LISTITEM>
</ITEMIZEDLIST>


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