firstterm
firstterm — The first occurrence of a term
Synopsis
Mixed Content Model
firstterm ::=
(#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|biblioref|abbrev|acronym|citation|
citerefentry|citetitle|citebiblioid|emphasis|firstterm|
foreignphrase|glossterm|termdef|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|
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Attributes
Name | Type | Default |
baseform | CDATA | None |
linkend | IDREF | None |
Description
This element marks the first occurrence of a word or term in a given context.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. FirstTerm
s are often given special typographic treatment, such as italics.
Parents
These elements contain firstterm: application
, attribution
, bibliomisc
, bridgehead
, citation
, citetitle
, emphasis
, entry
, firstterm
, foreignphrase
, glosssee
, glossseealso
, glossterm
, lineannotation
, link
, literallayout
, lotentry
, member
, msgaud
, olink
, para
, phrase
, primary
, primaryie
, productname
, programlisting
, quote
, refentrytitle
, refpurpose
, remark
, screen
, screeninfo
, secondary
, secondaryie
, see
, seealso
, seealsoie
, seeie
, seg
, segtitle
, simpara
, subtitle
, synopsis
, td
, term
, termdef
, tertiary
, tertiaryie
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, tocback
, tocentry
, tocfront
, ulink
.
Children
The following elements occur in firstterm: abbrev
, acronym
, action
, anchor
, application
, author
, authorinitials
, beginpage
, biblioref
, citation
, citebiblioid
, 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
, termdef
, token
, trademark
, type
, ulink
, uri
, userinput
, varname
, wordasword
, xref
.
Examples
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
In an <firstterm>Object Oriented</firstterm> programming language,
data and procedures (called <glossterm>methods</glossterm>) are
bound together.
</para>
In an Object Oriented programming language, data and procedures (called methods) are bound together.