uri — A Uniform Resource Identifier.
The uri element identifies a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) in content.
Formatted inline. The uri element does not automatically generate a link to the URI it identifies.
DocBook does not mandate any values for the type attribute, but several useful values have been suggested:
xmlnamespace for an XML namespace name; for example, http://docbook.org/ns/docbook
saxfeaturename for a SAX feature name; for example, http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces
saxpropertyname for a SAX property name; for example, http://xml.org/sax/properties/declaration-handler
soapaction for a SOAP action; see SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts
rddlpurpose for an RDDL purpose; see Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)
rddlnature for an RDDL nature; see Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)
homepage for a home page; for example, http://nwalsh.com/
weblog for a web log; for example, http://norman.walsh.name/
webpage for a web page; for example, http://docbook.org/schemas/
website for a website; for example, http://docbook.org
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Identifies the type of URI specified
These elements contain uri: address, author, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, contrib, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), line, link, literallayout, member, olink, org, orgdiv, othercredit, para, person, phrase (db.phrase), primary, quote (db.quote), remark, secondary, see, seealso, simpara, subtitle, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev.
The following elements occur in uri: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.