Thanks Richard, ended up making the following list

Block Elements:
CalloutList | ItemizedList | OrderedList | SegmentedList | SimpleList |
VariableList | Caution | Important |  Note | Tip | Warning | Address |
LiteralLayout | ProgramListing | Screen | ScreenShot | Synopsis | Example |
InformalExample | Figure | InformalFigure | Table | InformalTable | Para |
SimPara | FormalPara | Equation | InformalEquation | Figure | ScreenShot |
Graphic | MediaObject | QandASet | BlockQuote | CmdSynopsis | Epigraph |
FuncSynopsis | Highlights | MsgSet | Procedure | Sidebar


Regards

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Richard Hamilton <hamil...@xmlpress.net>wrote:

> Alex,
>
> I don't think that this xpath will do what you want, since many inlines
> allow other inlines as child elements.
>
> I suggest checking out the DocBook Definitive Guide, which has a section
> titled: "Logical Divisions: The Categories of Elements in DocBook," which
> lists the Block and Inline elements.
>
> The Definitive Guide can be found online at:
>
> http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html
>
> Best Regards,
> Richard Hamilton
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>
> On Jan 6, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Alex Muir wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been googling now for a while trying to get a complete list of
> block-level elements for docbook but thus far haven't found it easy to come
> across. Anyone know what the list is or where to find it?
> >
> > Would the following xpath get all the block-level elements from the
> docbook.xsd or is it too inclusive?
> >
> > //xs:element[exists(descendant::xs:element)]/@name
> >
> > I just went on the assumption that a block level element would have
> another element with it however I'm not familiar enough with docbook to
> know if the resulting list which clearly contains a lot of block-level
> elements is accurate.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
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