firstterm (db.firstterm)
firstterm — The first occurrence of a term.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Bibliography inlines
- Error inlines
- Graphic inlines
- GUI inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Keyboard inlines
- Linking inlines
- Markup inlines
- Math inlines
- Object-oriented programming inlines
- Operating system inlines
- Product inlines
- Programming inlines
- Publishing inlines
abbrev
acronym
coref
date
emphasis
(db.emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)firstterm
(db.firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db.foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)glossterm
(db.glossterm)phrase
(db.phrase)quote
(db.quote)subscript
superscript
wordasword
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrev
acronym
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
coref
date
emphasis
(db._emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
phrase
(db._phrase)quote
(db._quote)remark
subscript
superscript
trademark
wordasword
xref
Additional Constraints
- @linkend on firstterm must point to a glossentry.
Description
This element marks the first occurrence of a word or term in a given context.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. A firstterm
is often given
special typographic treatment, such as italics.
Attributes
- baseform
Specifies the base form of the term, the one that appears in the glossary. This allows adjectival, plural, and other variations of the term to appear in the element. The element content is the default base form.
This element occurs in 56 elements.
This element contains 106 elements.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example firstterm</title> <para>In an <firstterm>Object Oriented</firstterm> programming language, data and procedures (called <glossterm>methods</glossterm>) are bound together. </para> </article>
In an Object Oriented programming language, data and procedures (called methods) are bound together.