primary
primary — The primary word or phrase under which an index term should be sorted.
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
Description
In an indexterm
, primary
identifies the most significant word or words in the entry. All
indexterm
s must have a
primary
.
Processing expectations
Suppressed. This element provides data for processing but it is not rendered in the primary flow of text.
Attributes
- sortas
Specifies the string by which the term is to be sorted; if unspecified, the term content is used
Parents
These elements contain primary
: indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange).
This element contains 106 elements.
See Also
indexentry
, indexterm
, primaryie
, secondary
, secondaryie
, see
, seealso
, seealsoie
, seeie
, tertiary
, tertiaryie