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Role Attribute

Name

Role Attribute — The Role attribute occurs on many elements in DocBook.

Attributes

The Role attribute occurs on almost all of the elements of DocBook. It is not a common attribute because it is useful to be able to subclass Role independently on different elements.

NameValue(s)TypeDefault Value
RoleCDATA#IMPLIED 

Role

Role contains a string used to subclassify its element.


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