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<tablelist>

The <tablelist> element references a topic that contains a list of tables within the book. It indicates to the processing software that the author wants a list of tables generated at the particular location. If no @href attribute is specified on the <tablelist> element, an external processor might generate a list of tables at this location.

Content models

See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.

Inheritance

- map/topicref bookmap/tablelist

Example

See the example in <bookmap>.

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group, Link relationship attribute group (with a narrowed definition of @href, given below), Attributes common to many map elements, @navtitle and @copy-to from Topicref element attributes group, @outputclass, and @keyref.

@href
References a manual listing for the current element. See The @href attribute for detailed information on supported values and processing implications. If no @href is specified, processors can choose to generate an appropriate listing for this element. All of the book listings operate in a similar manner; for example, <toc href="toc.dita"/> references a topic which contains a manual table of contents, while <toc/> indicates that a processor should generate the table of contents.

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