footnoteref

footnoteref — A cross reference to a footnote (a footnote mark)

Synopsis

footnoteref ::=

empty

Attributes

Common attributes.

Additional attributes:

label

Required attributes are shown in bold.

Additional Constraints

@linkend on footnoteref must point to a footnote.

Description

This element forms an IDREF link to a footnote. It generates the same mark or link as the footnote to which it points.

In technical documentation, footnoteref occurs most frequently in tables.

Processing expectations

The footnoteref element usually generates the same mark as the footnote to which it points, although its mark can be influenced by the label attribute.

Neither SGML nor XML provide a mechnism (at this time) for asserting that some IDREF links must point to specific classes of elements. If a footnoteref points to something other than a footnote, the parser will not report it as an error. It is an error nonetheless. Processing is undefined.

Attributes

Common attributes.

label: Specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes

Parents

These elements contain footnoteref: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example footnoteref</title>

<informaltable>
<tgroup cols='2'>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>foo<footnote xml:id='fnrex1a'><para>A meaningless
word</para></footnote></entry>
<entry>3<footnote xml:id='fnrex1b'><para>A meaningless
number</para></footnote></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>bar<footnoteref linkend='fnrex1a'/></entry>
<entry>5<footnoteref linkend='fnrex1b'/></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>

</article>

foo^[a]	3^[b]
bar^[a]	5^[b]
^[a] A meaningless word ^[b] A meaningless number

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 7120 $ published Sun, 22 Jul 2007.


footnote		foreignphrase