foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase)
foreignphrase — A word or phrase in a language other than the primary language of the document.
Synopsis
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- Zero or more of:
- text
- Bibliography inlines
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Product inlines
- Publishing inlines
abbrevacronymcorefdateemphasis(db.emphasis)firstterm(db._firstterm)firstterm(db.firstterm)footnotefootnoterefforeignphrase(db.foreignphrase)glossterm(db._glossterm)glossterm(db.glossterm)phrase(db.phrase)quote(db.quote)subscriptsuperscriptwordasword
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.
Parents
These elements contain foreignphrase: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), line, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, quote (db.quote), remark, secondary, see, seealso, simpara, subtitle, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev.
Children
The following elements occur in foreignphrase: text, abbrev, acronym, anchor, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, coref, date, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), 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), subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.
See Also
abbrev, acronym, emphasis, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), phrase, quote, wordasword
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example foreignphrase</title>
<para>Like so many others, it became a <foreignphrase>de facto</foreignphrase>
standard.
</para>
</article>
Like so many others, it became a de facto standard.