address

address — A real-world address, generally a postal address

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

address ::=
(#PCDATA|personname|honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|
 affiliation|authorblurb|contrib|street|pob|postcode|city|state|
 country|phone|fax|email|otheraddr)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Name	Type	Default
linenumbering	Enumeration: numbered unnumbered	None
language	CDATA	None
xml:space	Enumeration: preserve	None
continuation	Enumeration: continues restarts	None
format	Enumerated notation: linespecific	"linespecific"
startinglinenumber	CDATA	None

Description

An address is generally a postal address, although it does contain elements for FAX and Email addresses as well as the catch-all OtherAddr.

The linespecific notation on the Format attribute makes line breaks and other spaces significant in an Address.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. This element is displayed “verbatim”; whitespace and linebreaks within this element are significant.

Future Changes

The xml:space attribute is automatically provided in the XML DTD.

Parents

These elements contain address: affiliation, answer, appendix, appendixinfo, article, articleinfo, author, bibliodiv, biblioentry, bibliography, bibliographyinfo, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockinfo, blockquote, bookinfo, callout, caution, chapter, chapterinfo, confgroup, constraintdef, editor, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossaryinfo, glossdef, glossdiv, important, index, indexdiv, indexinfo, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, objectinfo, orderedlist, othercredit, para, partinfo, partintro, preface, prefaceinfo, procedure, publisher, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refentryinfo, referenceinfo, refsect1, refsect1info, refsect2, refsect2info, refsect3, refsect3info, refsection, refsectioninfo, refsynopsisdiv, refsynopsisdivinfo, revdescription, sect1, sect1info, sect2, sect2info, sect3, sect3info, sect4, sect4info, sect5, sect5info, section, sectioninfo, setindex, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebar, sidebarinfo, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, tip, variablelist, warning.

Children

The following elements occur in address: affiliation, authorblurb, city, contrib, country, email, fax, firstname, honorific, lineage, otheraddr, othername, personname, phone, pob, postcode, state, street, surname.

Attributes

continuation

If continuation is specified, it indicates how line numbering should begin relative to the immediately preceding address. Restarts, the default, indicates that numbering should begin again at 1. Continues indicates that numbering should begin where the preceding element left off.

format

The format attribute applies the linespecific notation to all addresses. All white space and line breaks must be preserved.

linenumbering

Line numbering indicates whether or not the lines of an Address are to be automatically numbered. The details of numbering (every line or only selected lines, on the left or right, etc.) are left up to the processing application. Be aware that not all processors are capable of numbering lines.

See Also

city, country, email, fax, otheraddr, phone, pob, postcode, state, street.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>An example of a postal mail address in the United States:
<address>
John and Jane Doe
<street>100 Main Street</street>
<city>Anytown</city>, <state>NY</state> <postcode>12345</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
</para>

An example of a postal mail address in the United States:

John and Jane Doe
100 Main Street
Anytown, NY 12345
USA

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>An example of a post office box address in the United States:
<address>
<pob>P.O. Box 1234</pob>
<city>Anytown</city>, <state>MA</state> <postcode>12345</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
</para>

An example of a post office box address in the United States:

P.O. Box 1234
Anytown, MA 12345
USA

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>Addresses can also include phone numbers:
<address>
John Smith
<street>100 Pine Blvd</street>
<city>Anytown</city>, <state>NY</state> <postcode>12345</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
<phone>914.555.1212</phone>
<fax>914.555.1212</fax>
</address>
</para>

Addresses can also include phone numbers:

John Smith
100 Pine Blvd
Anytown, NY 12345
USA
914.555.1212
914.555.1212

For additional examples, see also confgroup, otheraddr, publisher.