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booktitlealt

The <booktitlealt> element contains the alternative title, subtitle, or short title for a book. It may be specialized into a specific element for those or other purposes.

Contains

note

These models represent only the default document types distributed by OASIS. Actual content models will differ with each new document type.
Doctype Content model
bookmap ( text data or boolean or keyword or apiname or option or parmname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or ph or b or i or sup or sub or tt or u or codeph or synph or filepath or msgph or systemoutput or userinput or menucascade or uicontrol or q or term or abbreviated-form or tm or state or image) (any number)
learningBookmap ( text data or boolean or keyword or ph or b or i or sup or sub or tt or u or q or term or tm or state or image) (any number)

Contained by

Doctype Content model
bookmap, learningBookmap booktitle

Inheritance

- topic/ph bookmap/booktitlealt

Example

<bookmap>
  <booktitle>
    <mainbooktitle>This is my big and fancy book</mainbooktitle>
    <booktitlealt>Shorter title</booktitle>
  </booktitle>
  <!-- ... -->
</bookmap>

Attributes

Name Description Data Type Default Value Required?
univ-atts attribute group (includes select-atts, id-atts, and localization-atts groups) A set of related attributes, described in univ-atts attribute group
global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc) A set of related attributes, described in global-atts attribute group
class, outputclass, keyref Keyref provides a redirectable reference based on a key defined within a map. See The keyref attribute for information on using this attribute. Class and outputclass are described in Other common DITA attributes

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