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$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:10 $
firstterm — The first occurrence of a term
firstterm ::= (#PCDATA|acronym|emphasis|trademark|link|olink|ulink|anchor| remark|subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject| indexterm|beginpage)*
Name |
Type |
Default |
linkend | IDREF | None |
This element marks the first occurrence of a word or term in a given context.
Formatted inline. FirstTerms are often given special typographic treatment, such as italics.
These elements contain firstterm: application, attribution, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, emphasis, entry, 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, term, tertiary, tertiaryie, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, ulink.
The following elements occur in firstterm: acronym, anchor, beginpage, emphasis, indexterm, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, link, olink, remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, ulink.
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.