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<note> Note

Textual information set off from the main text, labeled as a note and displayed in place.

Usage/Remarks

Display/Formatting Note
The contents of this element will display as boxed text with a generated heading “Note”. If a <title> is present (rare occurrence), its contents will be displayed inline with the generated heading, e.g., “Note: Historical Discrepancy”.
Attributes
xml:id
xreflabel
Models and Context
May be contained in
<appendix>, <article>, <blockquote>, <figure>, <listitem>, <note>, <para>, <section>, <td>, <textobject>, <th>
Description
The following, in order:
Expanded Content Model

(title?, (blockquote | equation | figure | informaltable | itemizedlist | mediaobject | note | orderedlist | para | programlisting | table | variablelist)+)

Tagged Sample

Boxed text note

<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
  version="5.0-subset Balisage-1.5" xml:id="HR-23632987-8973">
  <title>Raleigh&#8217;s Discoveries in the New World</title>
  <subtitle>New Insight into the Roanoke Colony</subtitle>
  ...
  <appendix xml:id="mul-app1" xreflabel="Appendix I">
    <title>The First Expeditionary Force&#8217;s Colony, 1585-1586</title>
    <note>
      <para>This Appendix contains an actual list of the individuals who sailed 
        to the Roanoke Colony in 1585. (<emphasis role="ital">See</emphasis> 
        <citation>Durant, David N., <quote>Raleigh&#8217;s Lost Colony</quote>, 
        Appendix I, Atheneum, NY: 1981</citation>.)</para>
    </note>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Master Philip Amades, Admirall of the countrie</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Master Hariot</para>
      </listitem>
      ...
    </itemizedlist>
  </appendix>
  <appendix xml:id="mul-app2" xreflabel="Appendix II">
    ...
  </appendix>
  <bibliography>
    ...
  </bibliography>
</article>
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