Taylor & Francis Journal Article DTD User Guide

DTD User Guide (1.10.1) for DTD "Taylor & Francis Journal Article DTD" version 1.10

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<deflist> (Definition List) Description .email comment.

Description

This element holds one or more term and definition pairs, optionally preceded by a list title. This is the only one of the list types that does not employ the <listitem> element to identify each item:

<deflist>
  <defentry>
    <term>TFJA</term>
    <definition><para>Taylor & Francis Journal Article</para></definition>
  </defentry>
  <defentry>
    <term>DTD</term>
    <definition><para>Document Type Definition</para></definition>
  </defentry>
</deflist>

TFJA      Taylor & Francis Journal Article
DTD       Document Type Definition

Note that this element is the main or only content of some constructs that identify particular kinds of list, including <nomen-sect> (nomeclature section), <abbrev-sect> (abbreviation sections) and <glossary> (glossary of terms).

Also note that the <term> element that is used to identify each term in the list is employed elsewhere to identify terms in the text, which is a different concept (unless the terms so identified happen to be the same as terms defined in one of these lists, such as an abbreviation, nomenclature word or glossary word.

Parent Elements

The elements listed below may directly contain this element. They are "parent" elements. Elements in referenced groups are included, up to two levels of group nesting.

Parent elements: <biography> <abstract> <abbrev-sect> <nomen-sect> <glossary> <para> <extract> <listitem> <definition> <endnotes> <endnote> <entry> <footnote>

- (via "Section Mixture" group: <intro> <section1> <section2> <section3> <section4> <section5> <summary> <ackno> <notesaddedinproof> )

Model Diagram

The DTD model for this element:

--+(sequence)
  |  
 listtitle (optional) -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  
 defentry (repeatable) -- (elements)

DTD Definition

The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):

<!ELEMENT deflist                        (listtitle?, defentry+)>
<!ATTLIST deflist
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>

Defined in DTD section Block-level Content : Lists

General Attributes (shared with other elements)

Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)