footnoteref

footnoteref — A cross reference to a footnote (a footnote mark)

Synopsis

Content Model

footnoteref ::=
EMPTY

Attributes

Common attributes

Name	Type	Default
label	CDATA	None
linkend	IDREF	Required

Description

This element forms an IDREF link to a Footnote. It generates the same mark or link as the Footnote to which it points.

In technical documentation, FootnoteRef occurs most frequently in tables.

Processing expectations

The FootnoteRef element usually generates the same mark as the Footnote to which it points, although its mark can be influenced by the Label attribute.

Neither SGML nor XML provide a mechnism (at this time) for asserting that some IDREF links must point to specific classes of elements. If a FootnoteRef points to something other than a Footnote, the parser will not report it as an error. It is an error nonetheless. Processing is undefined.

Parents

These elements contain footnoteref: application, attribution, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, emphasis, entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, lineannotation, link, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, olink, para, phrase, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, quote, refentrytitle, refpurpose, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, ulink.

Attributes

label

Label identifies the desired footnote mark.

linkend

Linkend points to the Footnote referenced.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE informaltable PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols='2'>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>foo<footnote id='fnrex1a'><para>A meaningless
word</para></footnote></entry>
<entry>3<footnote id='fnrex1b'><para>A meaningless
number</para></footnote></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>bar<footnoteref linkend='fnrex1a'/></entry>
<entry>5<footnoteref linkend='fnrex1b'/></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>

foo[a]	3[b]
bar[a]	5[b]
[a] A meaningless word [b] A meaningless number