<change-summary>

The <change-summary> element includes a brief description of the change.

Usage information

The <change-summary> element contains the portion of the release note that might appear in a document.

Specialization hierarchy

The <change-summary> element is specialized from <data>. It is defined in the release-management domain module.

Content model

(Text | <audio> | <cite> | <include> | <keyword> | <ph> | <q> | <term> | <text> | <tm> | <xref> | <data> | <draft-comment> | <foreign> | <image> | <object> | <required-cleanup> | <title> | <video>)*

Contained by

<change-item>

Zero or more of the following
  • Text
  • <audio>
  • <cite>
  • <data>
  • <draft-comment>
  • <foreign>
  • <image>
  • <include>
  • <keyword>
  • <object>
  • <ph>
  • <q>
  • <required-cleanup>
  • <term>
  • <text>
  • <title>
  • <tm>
  • <video>
  • <xref>

Contained by

Inheritance

+ topic/data relmgmt-d/change-summary

The <change-summary> element is specialized from <data>. It is defined in the relmgmt-domain module.

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: universal attributes and @name.

The following attributes are available on this element: universal attributes and the attributes defined below.

@name (data-element attributes)
Defines a unique name for the object.

Example

This section is non-normative.

The following code sample shows how the <change-summary> element can be used to provide a brief description of a change:

<change-historylist>
  <change-item product="productA">
    <change-person>Tom Cihak</change-person>
    <change-completed>2019-06-07</change-completed>
    <change-summary>Made change 2 to product A</change-summary>
    <data>Details of change 2</data>
  </change-item>
<change-historylist>