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.

abbrev, acronym, emphasis, foreignphrase, phrase, quote

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example wordasword</title>

<para>A <wordasword>Term</wordasword> in Algebra has a very different
meaning than a <tag>term</tag> in DocBook.
</para>

</article>