firstterm

firstterm — The first occurrence of a term.

Synopsis

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • baseform

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

Common attributes and common linking 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.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 54 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 100 elements.

See Also

glossterm

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example firstterm</title>
    
  4 <para>In an <firstterm>Object Oriented</firstterm> programming language,
    data and procedures (called <glossterm>methods</glossterm>) are
  6 bound together.
    </para>
  8 
    </article>

In an Object Oriented programming language, data and procedures (called methods) are bound together.

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)