A list composed of a set of term/description pairs; a glossary or “definition list”.
(title?, varlistentry+)
The following, in order:
<appendix>, <article>, <blockquote>, <figure>, <listitem>, <note>, <para>, <section>, <td>, <th>
...
<para>Information processing, especially text markup, was primitive in the colony.
For example, most text stores were in XML! Documents may have looked like this:
<programlisting>
<teiHeader>
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>Farming in the New World</title>
...
</titleStmt>
</fileDesc>
</teiHeader>
</programlisting>
Notice the paired Tags: <code><title></code> and <code></title></code>
and the primitive use of indenting. Unusual features of the colonists data
processing practices included:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Tags</term>
<listitem><para>Meaningful descriptions of the information enclosed by the
markers</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Balance</term>
<listitem><para>All markup is both opened and closed (or explicitely
empty)</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
...
balisage-1-3.dtd