• To: Peter Bergström <peter.bergstrom@e...>,"xml-dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: initiatives for glossary
• From: "Michael Fitzgerald" <mike@w...>
• Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 07:21:52 -0800
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• In-reply-to: <JEEIKGHIMKPOANOGBCGICEHFCFAA.peter.bergstrom@e...>

DocBook 4.2 deals with glossary terms, with elements such as:

glossary - A glossary
glossaryinfo - Meta-information for a Glossary
glossdef - A definition in a GlossEntry
glossdiv - A division in a Glossary
glossentry - An entry in a Glossary or GlossList
glosslist - A wrapper for a set of GlossEntrys
glosssee - A cross-reference from one GlossEntry to another
glossseealso - A cross-reference from one GlossEntry to another
glossterm - A glossary term

See the reference page for glossary
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/glossary.html, which is from the online
version of Norm Walsh's "DocBook: The Definitive Guide," published by
O'Reilly.

You can download the latest version of DocBook from http://www.docbook.org.

Mike

> From: Peter Bergström [mailto:peter.bergstrom@e...]
> This is a question regarding existing initiatives for representing a
> glossary in XML. We are looking at representing terms like term,

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