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# blockinfo

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$Date: 2002-06-10 21:20:20 -0400 (Mon, 10 Jun 2002) $

blockinfo — Meta-information for a block element

## Synopsis

### Content Model

    blockinfo ::=
    ((graphic|mediaobject|legalnotice|modespec|subjectset|keywordset|
      itermset|abbrev|abstract|address|artpagenums|author|authorgroup|
      authorinitials|bibliomisc|biblioset|collab|confgroup|
      contractnum|contractsponsor|copyright|corpauthor|corpname|
      corpcredit|date|edition|editor|invpartnumber|isbn|issn|issuenum|
      orgname|biblioid|citebiblioid|bibliosource|bibliorelation|
      bibliocoverage|othercredit|pagenums|printhistory|productname|
      productnumber|pubdate|publisher|publishername|pubsnumber|
      releaseinfo|revhistory|seriesvolnums|subtitle|title|titleabbrev|
      volumenum|citetitle|personname|honorific|firstname|surname|
      lineage|othername|affiliation|authorblurb|contrib|indexterm)+)

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

The `blockinfo` element is a wrapper for a large collection of meta-information about a block element. Much of this data is bibliographic in nature.

### Processing expectations

Suppressed. Many of the elements in this wrapper may be used in presentation, but they are not generally printed as part of the formatting of the wrapper. It merely serves to identify where they occur.

### Parents

These elements contain blockinfo: `bibliolist`, `blockquote`, `equation`, `example`, `figure`, `glosslist`, `informalequation`, `informalexample`, `informalfigure`, `informaltable`, `itemizedlist`, `legalnotice`, `msgset`, `orderedlist`, `procedure`, `qandadiv`, `qandaentry`, `qandaset`, `table`, `task`, `taskprerequisites`, `taskrelated`, `tasksummary`, `variablelist`.

### Children

The following elements occur in blockinfo: `abbrev`, `abstract`, `address`, `affiliation`, `artpagenums`, `author`, `authorblurb`, `authorgroup`, `authorinitials`, `bibliocoverage`, `biblioid`, `bibliomisc`, `bibliorelation`, `biblioset`, `bibliosource`, `citebiblioid`, `citetitle`, `collab`, `confgroup`, `contractnum`, `contractsponsor`, `contrib`, `copyright`, `corpauthor`, `corpcredit`, `corpname`, `date`, `edition`, `editor`, `firstname`, `graphic`, `honorific`, `indexterm`, `invpartnumber`, `isbn`, `issn`, `issuenum`, `itermset`, `keywordset`, `legalnotice`, `lineage`, `mediaobject`, `modespec`, `orgname`, `othercredit`, `othername`, `pagenums`, `personname`, `printhistory`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `pubdate`, `publisher`, `publishername`, `pubsnumber`, `releaseinfo`, `revhistory`, `seriesvolnums`, `subjectset`, `subtitle`, `surname`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `volumenum`.

## See Also

`appendixinfo`, `articleinfo`, `bibliographyinfo`, `bookinfo`, `chapterinfo`, `glossaryinfo`, `indexinfo`, `objectinfo`, `prefaceinfo`, `refsynopsisdivinfo`, `screeninfo`, `sect1info`, `sect2info`, `sect3info`, `sect4info`, `sect5info`, `sectioninfo`, `setinfo`.

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