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# msgaud

$Revision: 1.3 $

$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:18 $

msgaud — The audience to which a message in a message set is relevant

## Synopsis

### Mixed Content Model

    msgaud ::=
    (#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|biblioref|abbrev|acronym|citation|
     citerefentry|citetitle|emphasis|firstterm|foreignphrase|
     glossterm|footnote|phrase|orgname|quote|trademark|wordasword|
     personname|link|olink|ulink|action|application|classname|
     methodname|interfacename|exceptionname|ooclass|oointerface|
     ooexception|package|command|computeroutput|database|email|envar|
     errorcode|errorname|errortype|errortext|filename|function|
     guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|guimenu|guimenuitem|guisubmenu|
     hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|keycombo|keysym|literal|code|
     constant|markup|medialabel|menuchoice|mousebutton|option|
     optional|parameter|prompt|property|replaceable|returnvalue|
     sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|systemitem|uri|token|type|
     userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|author|authorinitials|
     corpauthor|corpcredit|modespec|othercredit|productname|
     productnumber|revhistory|remark|subscript|superscript|
     inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|inlineequation|synopsis|
     cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis|
     constructorsynopsis|destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|indexterm|
     beginpage)*

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

`MsgAud` is part of the additional information associated with a message in a `MsgSet`. It identifies the audience to which a particular `Msg` is relevant.

### Processing expectations

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

DocBook doesn't specify anything about how a particular audience might be identified, or how different audiences are distinguished.

On the whole, the semantics of `MsgSet` are not clearly defined.

### Future Changes

The `InterfaceDefinition` element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.

### Parents

These elements contain msgaud: `msginfo`.

### Children

The following elements occur in msgaud: `abbrev`, `acronym`, `action`, `anchor`, `application`, `author`, `authorinitials`, `beginpage`, `biblioref`, `citation`, `citerefentry`, `citetitle`, `classname`, `classsynopsis`, `cmdsynopsis`, `code`, `command`, `computeroutput`, `constant`, `constructorsynopsis`, `corpauthor`, `corpcredit`, `database`, `destructorsynopsis`, `email`, `emphasis`, `envar`, `errorcode`, `errorname`, `errortext`, `errortype`, `exceptionname`, `fieldsynopsis`, `filename`, `firstterm`, `footnote`, `footnoteref`, `foreignphrase`, `funcsynopsis`, `function`, `glossterm`, `guibutton`, `guiicon`, `guilabel`, `guimenu`, `guimenuitem`, `guisubmenu`, `hardware`, `indexterm`, `inlineequation`, `inlinegraphic`, `inlinemediaobject`, `interface`, `interfacename`, `keycap`, `keycode`, `keycombo`, `keysym`, `link`, `literal`, `markup`, `medialabel`, `menuchoice`, `methodname`, `methodsynopsis`, `modespec`, `mousebutton`, `nonterminal`, `olink`, `ooclass`, `ooexception`, `oointerface`, `option`, `optional`, `orgname`, `othercredit`, `package`, `parameter`, `personname`, `phrase`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `prompt`, `property`, `quote`, `remark`, `replaceable`, `returnvalue`, `revhistory`, `sgmltag`, `structfield`, `structname`, `subscript`, `superscript`, `symbol`, `synopsis`, `systemitem`, `token`, `trademark`, `type`, `ulink`, `uri`, `userinput`, `varname`, `wordasword`, `xref`.

## Examples

For examples, see `msgset`.

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