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# simplesect

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simplesect — A section of a document with no subdivisions

## Synopsis

### Content Model

    simplesect ::=
    ((title,subtitle?,titleabbrev?),
     (calloutlist|glosslist|bibliolist|itemizedlist|orderedlist|
      segmentedlist|simplelist|variablelist|caution|important|note|
      tip|warning|literallayout|programlisting|programlistingco|
      screen|screenco|screenshot|synopsis|cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|
      classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis|constructorsynopsis|
      destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|formalpara|para|simpara|
      address|blockquote|graphic|graphicco|mediaobject|mediaobjectco|
      informalequation|informalexample|informalfigure|informaltable|
      equation|example|figure|table|msgset|procedure|sidebar|qandaset|
      task|productionset|constraintdef|anchor|bridgehead|remark|
      highlights|abstract|authorblurb|epigraph|indexterm|beginpage)+)

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

`SimpleSect` is one of the top-level sectioning elements in a component. There are three types of sectioning elements in DocBook:

- Explicitly numbered sections, `Sect1`…`Sect5`, which must be properly nested and can only be five levels deep.

- Recursive `Section`s, which are alternative to the numbered sections and have unbounded depth.

- `SimpleSect`s, which are terminal. `SimpleSect`s can occur as the “leaf” sections in either recursive sections or any of the numbered sections, or directly in components.

`SimpleSect`s may be more convenient than numbered sections in some authoring environments because they can be moved around in the document hierarchy without renaming.

None of the sectioning elements is allowed to “float” in a component. You can place paragraphs and other block elements before a section, but you cannot place anything after it.

### Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. Sometimes sections are numbered.

### Parents

These elements contain simplesect: `appendix`, `article`, `chapter`, `partintro`, `preface`, `sect1`, `sect2`, `sect3`, `sect4`, `sect5`, `section`.

### Children

The following elements occur in simplesect: `abstract`, `address`, `anchor`, `authorblurb`, `beginpage`, `bibliolist`, `blockquote`, `bridgehead`, `calloutlist`, `caution`, `classsynopsis`, `cmdsynopsis`, `constraintdef`, `constructorsynopsis`, `destructorsynopsis`, `epigraph`, `equation`, `example`, `fieldsynopsis`, `figure`, `formalpara`, `funcsynopsis`, `glosslist`, `graphic`, `graphicco`, `highlights`, `important`, `indexterm`, `informalequation`, `informalexample`, `informalfigure`, `informaltable`, `itemizedlist`, `literallayout`, `mediaobject`, `mediaobjectco`, `methodsynopsis`, `msgset`, `note`, `orderedlist`, `para`, `procedure`, `productionset`, `programlisting`, `programlistingco`, `qandaset`, `remark`, `screen`, `screenco`, `screenshot`, `segmentedlist`, `sidebar`, `simpara`, `simplelist`, `subtitle`, `synopsis`, `table`, `task`, `tip`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `variablelist`, `warning`.

## See Also

`bridgehead`, `sect1`, `sect2`, `sect3`, `sect4`, `sect5`, `section`.

## Examples

    <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
              "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    <sect1><title>Additional Coding</title>

    <para>
    Support for the additional features requested will be provided.
    </para>

    <simplesect><title>Estimated Time</title>

    <para>
    2 to 3 weeks.
    </para>

    </simplesect>
    </sect1>

For additional examples, see also `productionset`.

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