anchor

anchor — A spot in the document

Synopsis

Content Model

anchor ::=
EMPTY

Attributes

Name	Type	Default
conformance	NMTOKENS	None
xreflabel	CDATA	None
arch	CDATA	None
remap	CDATA	None
os	CDATA	None
revision	CDATA	None
userlevel	CDATA	None
security	CDATA	None
revisionflag	Enumeration: added changed deleted off	None
id	ID	Required
pagenum	CDATA	None
role	CDATA	None
wordsize	CDATA	None
vendor	CDATA	None
condition	CDATA	None

Description

An anchor identifies a single spot in the content. This may serve as the target for a cross reference, for example, from a Link. The Anchor element may occur almost anywhere.

Anchor has the Role attribute and all of the common attributes except Lang.

Processing expectations

Anchor has no content and generally produces no output. It is a link target.

Parents

These elements contain anchor: abbrev, acronym, action, answer, appendix, application, article, attribution, bibliodiv, bibliography, bibliomisc, blockquote, bridgehead, callout, caution, chapter, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, command, computeroutput, constraintdef, database, emphasis, entry, filename, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, glossary, glossdiv, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, hardware, important, index, indexdiv, interfacename, itemizedlist, keycap, label, lineannotation, link, listitem, literal, literallayout, lotentry, manvolnum, member, msgaud, msgexplan, msgtext, note, olink, option, optional, orderedlist, para, parameter, partintro, phrase, preface, primary, primaryie, procedure, productname, programlisting, property, qandadiv, qandaset, question, quote, refentrytitle, refpurpose, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, remark, replaceable, revdescription, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, setindex, sidebar, simpara, simplesect, step, subscript, subtitle, superscript, synopsis, systemitem, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, tip, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, trademark, ulink, userinput, variablelist, warning, wordasword.

Attributes

pagenum

PageNum indicates the page on which the anchor occurs in some printed version of the document.

The PageNum attribute does not influence the pagination or page numbering of an SGML application processing the document; it is informative, not declarative.

See Also

link, olink, ulink, xref.

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>
The anchor element<anchor id="example.anchor.1"/> is empty and contributes
nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs.  It is only useful
as a target.
</para>

The anchor element is empty and contributes nothing to the flow of the content in which it occurs. It is only useful as a target.