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Name

Step -- Part of a Procedure

Content Model

  Title?,
  (
    ((CalloutList | GlossList | ItemizedList | OrderedList
    | SegmentedList | SimpleList | VariableList | Caution
    | Important | Note | Tip | Warning | LiteralLayout
    | ProgramListing | ProgramListingCO | Screen | ScreenCO
    | ScreenShot | Synopsis | CmdSynopsis | FuncSynopsis
    | FormalPara | Para | SimPara | Address | BlockQuote
    | Graphic | GraphicCO | InformalEquation
    | InformalExample | InformalTable | Equation | Example
    | Figure | Table | MsgSet | Procedure | Sidebar | Anchor
    | BridgeHead | Comment | Highlights | Abstract
    | AuthorBlurb | Epigraph)+, (SubSteps, (CalloutList
    | GlossList | ItemizedList | OrderedList | SegmentedList
    | SimpleList | VariableList | Caution | Important | Note
    | Tip | Warning | LiteralLayout | ProgramListing
    | ProgramListingCO | Screen | ScreenCO | ScreenShot
    | Synopsis | CmdSynopsis | FuncSynopsis | FormalPara | Para
    | SimPara | Address | BlockQuote | Graphic | GraphicCO
    | InformalEquation | InformalExample | InformalTable
    | Equation | Example | Figure | Table | MsgSet | Procedure
    | Sidebar | Anchor | BridgeHead | Comment | Highlights
    | Abstract | AuthorBlurb
    | Epigraph)*)?)
    | (SubSteps, (CalloutList | GlossList | ItemizedList
    | OrderedList | SegmentedList | SimpleList | VariableList
    | Caution | Important | Note | Tip | Warning | LiteralLayout
    | ProgramListing | ProgramListingCO | Screen | ScreenCO
    | ScreenShot | Synopsis | CmdSynopsis | FuncSynopsis
    | FormalPara | Para | SimPara | Address | BlockQuote
    | Graphic | GraphicCO | InformalEquation
    | InformalExample | InformalTable | Equation | Example
    | Figure | Table | MsgSet | Procedure | Sidebar | Anchor
    | BridgeHead | Comment | Highlights | Abstract
    | AuthorBlurb
    | Epigraph)*)
  )

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Name	Value(s)	Type	Default Value
Performance	(Optional \|Required)		Required

Tag Minimization

The start-tag is required for this element. The end-tag is optional, if your SGML declaration allows minimization.

Description

Part of a Procedure. After its optional Title, Step may contain block-oriented elements mixed with occurrences of the SubSteps element. SubSteps then contains one or more Steps-it is a wrapper. Step has common attributes and a Performance attribute, which indicates whether the step must be performed.

Parents

These elements contain Step: Procedure, SubSteps.

Children

Step contains these elements: Abstract, Address, Anchor, AuthorBlurb, BlockQuote, BridgeHead, CalloutList, Caution, CmdSynopsis, Comment, Epigraph, Equation, Example, Figure, FormalPara, FuncSynopsis, GlossList, Graphic, GraphicCO, Highlights, Important, InformalEquation, InformalExample, InformalTable, ItemizedList, LiteralLayout, MsgSet, Note, OrderedList, Para, Procedure, ProgramListing, ProgramListingCO, Screen, ScreenCO, ScreenShot, SegmentedList, Sidebar, SimPara, SimpleList, SubSteps, Synopsis, Table, Tip, Title, VariableList, Warning.

Attributes

Performance: Performance indicates whether the Step must be performed. The default (not #REQUIRED) value is Required.

Examples

<PROCEDURE>
<TITLE>Waking Up</TITLE>
<PARA>This is what you must do to awaken.
</PARA>
<STEP performance="required">
<PARA>Bring yourself to a hypnopompic state, either from an
ongoing dream or by use of your internal clock.  You may
feel unable to move, but you will no longer be dreaming.
</PARA>
<PARA>Now you are ready for real-world readjustment.
</PARA>
<SUBSTEPS>
<STEP performance="optional">
<PARA>Roll over.
</PARA>
</STEP>
<STEP performance="required">
<PARA>Squint out of one eye.
</PARA>
</STEP>
</SUBSTEPS>
</STEP>
<STEP performance="required">
<PARA>Yawn and rise from your bed.
</PARA>
</STEP>
</PROCEDURE>

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