wordasword
wordasword — A word meant specifically as a word and not representing anything else
Synopsis
Mixed Content Model
wordasword ::=
(#PCDATA|acronym|emphasis|trademark|link|olink|ulink|anchor|
remark|subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|
indexterm|beginpage)*
Attributes
Description
A lot of technical documentation contains words that have overloaded meanings. Sometimes it is useful to be able to use a word without invoking its technical meaning. The WordAsWord
element identifies a word or phrase that might otherwise be interpreted in some specific way, and asserts that it should be interpreted simply as a word.
It is unlikely that the presentation of this element will be able to help readers understand the variation in meaning; good writing will have to achieve that goal. The real value of WordAsWord
lies in the fact that full-text searching and indexing tools can use it to avoid false-positives.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
Parents
These elements contain wordasword: 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 wordasword: acronym
, anchor
, beginpage
, emphasis
, indexterm
, inlinegraphic
, inlinemediaobject
, link
, olink
, remark
, subscript
, superscript
, trademark
, ulink
.
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>
A <wordasword>Term</wordasword> in Algebra has a very different meaning
than a <sgmltag>Term</sgmltag> in DocBook.
</para>
A Term in Algebra has a very different meaning than a Term
in DocBook.