glossterm (db.glossterm)
glossterm — A glossary term.
Synopsis
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- Zero or more of:
- text
- Bibliography inlines
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Markup inlines
- Math 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
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrevacronymaltanchorbibliorefcorefdateemphasis(db._emphasis)firstterm(db._firstterm)footnotefootnoterefforeignphrase(db._foreignphrase)glossterm(db._glossterm)indexterm(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkphrase(db._phrase)quote(db._quote)remarksubscriptsuperscripttrademarkwordaswordxref
Attributes
Additional Constraints
- @linkend on glossterm must point to a glossentry.
Description
A 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.
Processing expectations
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.
The glossterms must not be nested within
other glossterms. The processing of nested
glossterms is undefined.
As part of a glossentry,
glossterms are usually set as a block and separated
from the definition.
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
These elements contain glossterm: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glossentry, 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 glossterm: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, coref, date, editor, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlineequation, inlinemediaobject, jobtitle, link, literal, olink, optional, org, orgname, person, personname, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), remark, subscript, superscript, termdef, trademark, uri, wordasword, xref.
Examples
See glossary for an example using this element.