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glossterm — A glossary term
glossterm ::=
(%para.char.mix;)*Name | Type | Default |
| baseform | CDATA | None |
| linkend | IDREF | None |
The following parameter entities contain glossterm:
| Parameter Entities | ||
%gen.char.class; | %ndxterm.char.mix; | %para.char.mix; |
%refinline.char.mix; | %tbl.entry.mdl; | %title.char.mix; |
GlossTerm identifies a term that appears in a
Glossary or GlossList. This element
occurs in two very different places: it is both an inline, and a
structure element of a GlossEntry. As an inline, it
identifies a term defined in a glossary, and may point to it.
Within a GlossEntry, it identifies the term defined
by that particular entry.
As an inline, GlossTerms frequently get special typographic
treatment, such as italics. In an online environment, they may also
form a link (explicitly or implicitly) to the corresponding definition
in a glossary.
GlossTerms must not be nested within other
GlossTerms. Because DocBook is harmonizing towards
XML, this restriction is difficult to enforce with the
DTD. The processing of nested GlossTerms is
undefined.
As part of a GlossEntry, GlossTerms are usually
set as block and separated from the definition.
The InterfaceDefinition
element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available
in the content model of this element.
These elements contain glossterm:
application, attribution, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, emphasis, entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, glossentry, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, lineannotation, link, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, olink, para, phrase, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, quote, refentrytitle, refpurpose, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, ulink.
The following elements occur in glossterm:
abbrev, acronym, action, anchor, application, author, authorinitials, beginpage, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, classname, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, code, command, computeroutput, constant, constructorsynopsis, corpauthor, corpcredit, database, destructorsynopsis, email, emphasis, envar, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, exceptionname, fieldsynopsis, filename, firstterm, footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase, funcsynopsis, function, glossterm, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, indexterm, inlineequation, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, interface, interfacename, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, link, literal, markup, medialabel, menuchoice, methodname, methodsynopsis, modespec, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, orgname, othercredit, package, parameter, personname, phrase, productname, productnumber, prompt, property, quote, remark, replaceable, returnvalue, revhistory, sgmltag, structfield, structname, subscript, superscript, symbol, synopsis, systemitem, termdef, token, trademark, type, ulink, uri, userinput, varname, wordasword, xref.
BaseForm, if specified, contains the
root form of the word identified as a GlossTerm. If unspecified,
the content of GlossTerm element should be used.
BaseForm allows sorting, collating, and indexing
to work properly even when different parts of speech are identifed as
GlossTerms. For example,
<glossterm>sort</glossterm>
and
<glossterm baseform="sort">sorting</glossterm>
.
Linkend points to a related element,
generally the GlossEntry that defines it.
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| glossseealso | | graphic |