foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase)

foreignphrase — A word or phrase in a language other than the primary language of the document.

Synopsis

Parents
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foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase) ::= × ⏵

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional attributes.

Description

The foreignphrase element can be used to mark up the text of a foreign word or phrase. Foreign in this context means that it is a language other than the primary language of the document and is not intended to be pejorative in any way.

Processing expectations

A foreignphrase is often given special typographic treatment, such as italics.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

58 elements contain foreignphrase. × ⏵

These elements contain foreignphrase: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, synopsisinfo, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.

Children

44 elements occur in foreignphrase. × ⏵

The following elements occur in foreignphrase: text, abbrev, acronym, anchor, application, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, coref, database, date, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), hardware, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, jobtitle, link, olink, org, orgname, person, personname, phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, quote (db.quote), revnumber, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.

See Also

Related elements: abbrev, acronym, emphasis, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), phrase, quote, wordasword.

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example foreignphrase</title>
  | 
  |<para>Like so many others, it became a <foreignphrase>de facto</foreignphrase>
5 |standard.
  |</para>
  | 
  |</article>

Like so many others, it became a de facto standard.