Re: [docbook-apps] Getting a list of Docbook Block Level elements --can the following xpath gather a block-level list from the xsd?

[Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com>]

Thanks Richard, ended up making the following list

Block Elements:
CalloutList | ItemizedList | OrderedList | SegmentedList | SimpleList | 
VariableList | Caution | Important |  Note | Tip | Warning | Address | 
LiteralLayout | ProgramListing | Screen | ScreenShot | Synopsis | 
Example | InformalExample | Figure | InformalFigure | Table | 
InformalTable | Para | SimPara | FormalPara | Equation | 
InformalEquation | Figure | ScreenShot | Graphic | MediaObject | 
QandASet | BlockQuote | CmdSynopsis | Epigraph | FuncSynopsis | 
Highlights | MsgSet | Procedure | Sidebar


Regards

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Richard Hamilton <hamilton@xmlpress.net> wrote:

Alex,

I don't think that this xpath will do what you want, since many inlines allow other inlines as child elements.

I suggest checking out the DocBook Definitive Guide, which has a section titled: "Logical Divisions: The Categories of Elements in DocBook," which lists the Block and Inline elements.

The Definitive Guide can be found online at:

http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html

Best Regards,
Richard Hamilton
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On Jan 6, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Alex Muir wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been googling now for a while trying to get a complete list of block-level elements for docbook but thus far haven't found it easy to come across. Anyone know what the list is or where to find it?
>
> Would the following xpath get all the block-level elements from the docbook.xsd or is it too inclusive?
>
> //xs:element[exists(descendant::xs:element)]/@name
>
> I just went on the assumption that a block level element would have another element with it however I'm not familiar enough with docbook to know if the resulting list which clearly contains a lot of block-level elements is accurate.
>
> Regards
>
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