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<pubdate>$Date$</pubdate>
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<refmeta>
<indexterm><primary>elements</primary>
<secondary>simplesect</secondary></indexterm>
<refentrytitle>simplesect</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo>Element</refmiscinfo>
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<refnamediv>
<refname>simplesect</refname>
<refpurpose>&simplesect.purpose;</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

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<refsect1 condition='ref.description'><title>Description</title>

<para>
<sgmltag>SimpleSect</sgmltag> is one of the top-level sectioning elements in
a component. There are three types of sectioning elements in
DocBook:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Explicitly numbered sections, <sgmltag>Sect1</sgmltag>&hellip;<sgmltag>Sect5</sgmltag>,
which must be properly nested and can only be five levels deep.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Recursive <sgmltag>Section</sgmltag>s, which are alternative to the numbered
sections and have unbounded depth.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<sgmltag>SimpleSect</sgmltag>s, which are terminal.  <sgmltag>SimpleSect</sgmltag>s can
occur as the <quote>leaf</quote> sections in either recursive sections or any
of the numbered sections, or directly in components.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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

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

<refsect2><title>Processing expectations</title>
<para>
&format.block; Sometimes sections are numbered.
</para>
</refsect2>


&simplesect.parents.gen;
&simplesect.children.gen;
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<refsect1 condition='ref.elem.seealso'><title>See Also</title>
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</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Examples</title>

<informalexample role="example-source">
<programlisting>&simplesect.example.1.txt;</programlisting>
</informalexample>

&simplesect.example.seealso.gen;
</refsect1>
</refentry>

