primary
primary — The primary word or phrase under which an index term should be sorted.
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
- Technical inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
Attributes
Description
In an indexterm, primary
identifies the most significant word or words in the entry. All
indexterms must have a
primary.
Processing expectations
Suppressed. This element provides data for processing but it is not rendered in the primary flow of text.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- sortas
Specifies the string by which the term is to be sorted; if unspecified, the term content is used
Parents
Children
The following elements occur in primary: 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.