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Warning

Name

Synopsis

  (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

Warning 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

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

Parents

These elements contain Warning: 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

Warning 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

<WARNING>
<TITLE>Warning!</TITLE>
<PARA>Never use software from sources
you would not trust with your firstborn.
</PARA>
<PARA>If in doubt about a program, don't use it at all.
</PARA>
</WARNING>

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