firstterm — The first occurrence of a term
abbrevacronymcorefdateemphasis (db.emphasis)firsttermfootnotefootnoterefforeignphraseglosstermphrase (db.phrase)quotesubscriptsuperscriptwordasword
altanchorannotationbibliorefindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkremarksubscriptsuperscriptxrefThis element marks the first occurrence of a word or term in a given context.
Formatted inline. A firstterm is often given special typographic treatment, such as italics.
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
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.
These elements contain firstterm: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso,
glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie,
programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie,
seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.
The following elements occur in firstterm: text, abbrev, accel, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, application, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry,
citetitle, classname, code, command, computeroutput, constant, coref, database, date, editor, email, emphasis (db.emphasis), envar,
errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, exceptionname, filename, firstterm, footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase, function, glossterm, guibutton,
guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, html:button, html:fieldset, html:input, html:label, html:select, html:textarea, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), initializer, inlineequation, inlinemediaobject, interfacename, jobtitle, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, link, literal, markup, menuchoice, methodname,
modifier, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, org, orgname, package, parameter, person, personname, phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, prompt, property, quote, remark, replaceable, returnvalue, shortcut, subscript, superscript, symbol, systemitem, tag, termdef, token, trademark,
type, uri, userinput, varname, wordasword, xref.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example firstterm</title> <para>In an <firstterm>Object Oriented</firstterm> programming language, data and procedures (called <glossterm>methods</glossterm>) are bound together. </para> </article>
In an Object Oriented programming language, data and procedures (called methods) are bound together.