firstterm

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$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:10 $

firstterm — The first occurrence of a term

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

firstterm ::=
(#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

Name

Type

Default

baseformCDATANone
linkendIDREFNone

Description

This element marks the first occurrence of a word or term in a given context.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline. FirstTerms are often given special typographic treatment, such as italics.

Attributes

linkend

Linkend points to a related element, perhaps the Glossary definition of the term.

See Also

glossterm.

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.