Schema Documentation - Generic Document Profile
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The index variant of the section element

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The index section element represents a major structural division of an index .

The index section element is a specialization of the section element that provides a content model to fit the unique requirements of index divisions.

The republishing of documents often requires the insertion of content that was not a part of the original source document. For example, in the case of indexes, bibliographies and other ordered sections, this requirement may take the form of placeholder sections to mark gaps in the alphabetic list of entries. To indicate that an element presents content that is a deviation from the source, the role attribute can be used with the value custom. No behaviors are defined for how a processing agent should handle sections so identified, however.

Usage Example

<index>
    <section>
        <h>A.</h>
        <entry>ABERRANT groups, <ref>429</ref>.</entry>
        <entry>…</entry>
    </section>
</index>

Allowed parents

index and section

Allowed children

This element must not contain text.

This element may contain the following children: aside, block, entry, h, hd, object, p, pagebreak, section and transition

Content model

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @datatype, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @sel:selid, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
a mix of
• an optional h
• zero or more of
any of the 7 elements: aside, block, hd, object, p, pagebreak and transition
end of mix
a choice of
either
first a mix of
• one or more of entry
• zero or more of
any of the 2 elements: hd and pagebreak
end of mix
followed by zero or more of section
or
first zero or more of entry
followed by one or more of section
end of choice

Variants

This element exists in 6 variants. The other 5 variants are:

Namespace

http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/