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Version: DocBook V4.5

lot

lot — A list of the titles of formal objects (as tables or figures) in a document

Synopsis​

Content Model​

lot ::=
(beginpage?,
 (title,subtitle?,titleabbrev?)?,
 lotentry*)

Attributes​

Common attributes

Name

Type

Default

label

CDATA

None

Description​

A LoT is a list of titles. It can be used to generate lists of Figures, Tables, Examples, or Equations.

Processing expectations​

Formatted as a displayed block. A list of titles in a Book usually introduces a forced page break.

Most often, lists of titles are generated automatically by the presentation system and never have to be represented explicitly in the document source.

Parents​

These elements contain lot: appendix, article, book, chapter, part, preface, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section.

Children​

The following elements occur in lot: beginpage, lotentry, subtitle, title, titleabbrev.

Attributes​

label

Label specifies an identifying number or string that may be used in presentation.

Examples​

<!DOCTYPE lot PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<lot><title>List of Figures</title>
<lotentry pagenum='5'>The Letters &ldquo;g&rdquo; and &ldquo;h&rdquo; 
   inside their boxes</lotentry>
<lotentry pagenum='15'>Example figure produced by both TeX and
   troff</lotentry>
<!-- ... -->
</lot>