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|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|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.