Answers.Body: <p>Check out Chapter 17 of the Docbook XSL Book <a href="http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/</a></p>
  <p>From the passage:</p>
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  <p>Using a glosslist in running text, instead of a variablelist, for
  example, maintains the semantic distinction of a glossary. This
  distinction may be necessary if you want to automatically point to the
  members of the list with glossterms in the body of the text.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I'd have to check out the HTML output, but if the distinction is semantic, it's mainly to help you to distinguish between functions in list.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: It says that `glosslist` is useful if I want to point from `glossterm` to a member of a `glosslist`. I believe I can point from `glossterm` to anything using the `linkend` attribute, hence to a `varlistentry` too.
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Body: <p>I can't find an explanation when which should be used in any guide. Even their presentations in “DocBook 5.2: The Definitive Guide” by Norman Walsh are similar. Maybe, one of them is deprecated? Maybe, there are fine differences described only in the Relax NG grammar? I didn't get to learning Relax NG yet.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Relaxing won't explain what the items mean it only checks the syntax. So probably accepts any text as a value
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Title: difference between `variablelist` and `glosslist` in DocBook
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ThreadText: # difference between `variablelist` and `glosslist` in DocBook
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-29)
  
  I can't find an explanation when which should be used in any guide. Even their presentations in “DocBook 5.2: The Definitive Guide” by Norman Walsh are similar. Maybe, one of them is deprecated? Maybe, there are fine differences described only in the Relax NG grammar? I didn't get to learning Relax NG yet.
  
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  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Relaxing won't explain what the items mean it only checks the syntax. So probably accepts any text as a value  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2021-10-04. Score: 0
  
  Check out Chapter 17 of the Docbook XSL Book <http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/>
  
  From the passage:
  
  > Using a glosslist in running text, instead of a variablelist, for
  > example, maintains the semantic distinction of a glossary. This
  > distinction may be necessary if you want to automatically point to the
  > members of the list with glossterms in the body of the text.
  
  I'd have to check out the HTML output, but if the distinction is semantic, it's mainly to help you to distinguish between functions in list.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: It says that `glosslist` is useful if I want to point from `glossterm` to a member of a `glosslist`. I believe I can point from `glossterm` to anything using the `linkend` attribute, hence to a `varlistentry` too.  
  
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