wordasword
wordasword — A word meant specifically as a word and not representing anything else.
Synopsis
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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
Description
A lot of technical documentation contains words that have
overloaded meanings. Sometimes it is useful to be able to use a word
without invoking its technical meaning. The
wordasword element identifies a word or phrase that
might otherwise be interpreted in some specific way, and asserts that it
should be interpreted simply as a word.
It is unlikely that the presentation of this element will be able
to help readers understand the variation in meaning; good writing will
have to achieve that goal. The real value of
wordasword lies in the fact that full-text searching
and indexing tools can use it to avoid false positives.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
Parents
These elements contain wordasword: abbrev, acronym, address, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, biblioentry, biblioid, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, biblioset, bibliosource, bridgehead, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, fax, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), givenname, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, issuenum, jobtitle, label, line, lineage, link, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, olink, optional, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, primary, productname, productnumber, publishername, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, revnumber, revremark, secondary, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, shortaffil, simpara, state, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev, trademark, uri, volumenum, wordasword, year.
Children
The following elements occur in wordasword: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example wordasword</title>
<para>A <wordasword>Term</wordasword> in Algebra has a very different
meaning than a <tag>term</tag> in DocBook.
</para>
</article>
A Term in Algebra has a very different
meaning than a term in DocBook.