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firstterm — The first occurrence of a term
firstterm ::= (#PCDATA|footnoteref
|xref
|biblioref
|abbrev
|acronym
|citation
|citerefentry
|citetitle
|citebiblioid
|emphasis
|firstterm
|foreignphrase
|glossterm
|termdef
|footnote
|phrase
|orgname
|quote
|trademark
|wordasword
|personname
|link
|olink
|ulink
|action
|application
|classname
|methodname
|interfacename
|exceptionname
|ooclass
|oointerface
|ooexception
|package
|command
|computeroutput
|database
|envar
|errorcode
|errorname
|errortype
|errortext
|filename
|function
|guibutton
|guiicon
|guilabel
|guimenu
|guimenuitem
|guisubmenu
|hardware
|interface
|keycap
|keycode
|keycombo
|keysym
|literal
|code
|constant
|markup
|medialabel
|menuchoice
|mousebutton
|option
|optional
|parameter
|prompt
|property
|replaceable
|returnvalue
|sgmltag
|structfield
|structname
|symbol
|systemitem
|uri
|token
|type
|userinput
|varname
|nonterminal
|anchor
|author
|authorinitials
|corpauthor
|corpcredit
|modespec
|othercredit
|productname
|productnumber
|revhistory
|remark
|subscript
|superscript
|inlinegraphic
|inlinemediaobject
|inlineequation
|synopsis
|cmdsynopsis
|funcsynopsis
|classsynopsis
|fieldsynopsis
|constructorsynopsis
|destructorsynopsis
|methodsynopsis
|indexterm
|beginpage
)*
Name |
Type |
Default |
baseform | CDATA | None |
linkend | IDREF | None |
This element marks the first occurrence of a word or term in a given context.
Formatted inline. FirstTerm
s are often given special
typographic treatment,
such as italics.
These elements contain firstterm:
application
, attribution
, bibliomisc
, bridgehead
, citation
, citetitle
, emphasis
, entry
, firstterm
, foreignphrase
, glosssee
, glossseealso
, glossterm
, lineannotation
, link
, literallayout
, lotentry
, member
, msgaud
, olink
, para
, phrase
, primary
, primaryie
, productname
, programlisting
, quote
, refentrytitle
, refpurpose
, remark
, screen
, screeninfo
, secondary
, secondaryie
, see
, seealso
, seealsoie
, seeie
, seg
, segtitle
, simpara
, subtitle
, synopsis
, td
, term
, termdef
, tertiary
, tertiaryie
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, tocback
, tocentry
, tocfront
, ulink
.
The following elements occur in firstterm:
abbrev
, acronym
, action
, anchor
, application
, author
, authorinitials
, beginpage
, biblioref
, citation
, citebiblioid
, citerefentry
, citetitle
, classname
, classsynopsis
, cmdsynopsis
, code
, command
, computeroutput
, constant
, constructorsynopsis
, corpauthor
, corpcredit
, database
, destructorsynopsis
, email
, emphasis
, envar
, errorcode
, errorname
, errortext
, errortype
, exceptionname
, fieldsynopsis
, filename
, firstterm
, footnote
, footnoteref
, foreignphrase
, funcsynopsis
, function
, glossterm
, guibutton
, guiicon
, guilabel
, guimenu
, guimenuitem
, guisubmenu
, hardware
, indexterm
, inlineequation
, inlinegraphic
, inlinemediaobject
, interface
, interfacename
, keycap
, keycode
, keycombo
, keysym
, link
, literal
, markup
, medialabel
, menuchoice
, methodname
, methodsynopsis
, modespec
, mousebutton
, nonterminal
, olink
, ooclass
, ooexception
, oointerface
, option
, optional
, orgname
, othercredit
, package
, parameter
, personname
, phrase
, productname
, productnumber
, prompt
, property
, quote
, remark
, replaceable
, returnvalue
, revhistory
, sgmltag
, structfield
, structname
, subscript
, superscript
, symbol
, synopsis
, systemitem
, termdef
, token
, trademark
, type
, ulink
, uri
, userinput
, varname
, wordasword
, xref
.
Linkend
points to a related element, perhaps the
Glossary
definition of the term.
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"> <para> In an <firstterm>Object Oriented</firstterm> programming language, data and procedures (called <glossterm>methods</glossterm>) are bound together. </para>
In an Object Oriented programming language, data and procedures (called methods) are bound together.