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simpara — A paragraph that contains only text and inline markup, no block elements
simpara ::= (#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|abbrev|acronym|citation|citerefentry| citetitle|emphasis|firstterm|foreignphrase|glossterm|footnote| phrase|quote|trademark|wordasword|personname|link|olink|ulink| action|application|classname|methodname|interfacename| exceptionname|ooclass|oointerface|ooexception|command| computeroutput|database|email|envar|errorcode|errorname| errortype|errortext|filename|function|guibutton|guiicon|guilabel| guimenu|guimenuitem|guisubmenu|hardware|interface|keycap|keycode| keycombo|keysym|literal|constant|markup|medialabel|menuchoice| mousebutton|option|optional|parameter|prompt|property| replaceable|returnvalue|sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol| systemitem|token|type|userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor| author|authorinitials|corpauthor|modespec|othercredit| productname|productnumber|revhistory|remark|subscript| superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|inlineequation| synopsis|cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis| constructorsynopsis|destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|indexterm| beginpage)*
A SimPara is a “simple paragraph,” one that may contain only character data and inline elements. The Para element is less restrictive; it may also contain block level structures (lists, figures, and so on).
Formatted as a displayed block.
The InterfaceDefinition element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.
These elements contain simpara: abstract, answer, appendix, article, authorblurb, bibliodiv, bibliography, blockquote, callout, caption, caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, dedication, entry, epigraph, example, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, highlights, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, orderedlist, partintro, personblurb, preface, printhistory, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, revdescription, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, textobject, tip, variablelist, warning.
The following elements occur in simpara: abbrev, acronym, action, anchor, application, author, authorinitials, beginpage, citation, citerefentry, citetitle, classname, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, command, computeroutput, constant, constructorsynopsis, corpauthor, database, destructorsynopsis, email, emphasis, envar, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, exceptionname, fieldsynopsis, filename, firstterm, footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase, funcsynopsis, function, glossterm, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, indexterm, inlineequation, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, interface, interfacename, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, link, literal, markup, medialabel, menuchoice, methodname, methodsynopsis, modespec, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, othercredit, parameter, personname, phrase, productname, productnumber, prompt, property, quote, remark, replaceable, returnvalue, revhistory, sgmltag, structfield, structname, subscript, superscript, symbol, synopsis, systemitem, token, trademark, type, ulink, userinput, varname, wordasword, xref.
<!DOCTYPE simpara PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"> <simpara> Just the text, ma'am. </simpara>
Just the text, ma'am.
For additional examples, see also para.