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FirstTerm

Name

Synopsis

  (#PCDATA | Acronym | Emphasis | Trademark | Link | OLink
  | ULink | Anchor | Comment | Subscript | Superscript
  | InlineGraphic)+

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Name	Value(s)	Type	Default Value
Linkend	IDREF	#IMPLIED

Tag Minimization

Both the start- and end-tags are required for this element.

Description

First occurrence of a word in a given context. It may contain anything in word.char.mix and has Linkend and common attributes. The Linkend attribute may be used to point to a GlossEntry for the word, or to some other explanation of it.

Parents

These elements contain FirstTerm: Application, Attribution, BiblioMisc, BridgeHead, Citation, CiteTitle, Comment, Emphasis, ForeignPhrase, GlossSee, GlossSeeAlso, GlossTerm, LineAnnotation, Link, LiteralLayout, LoTentry, Member, MsgAud, OLink, Para, Phrase, Primary, PrimaryIE, ProductName, ProgramListing, Quote, RefEntryTitle, RefPurpose, Screen, ScreenInfo, Secondary, SecondaryIE, See, SeeAlso, SeeAlsoIE, SeeIE, Seg, SegTitle, SimPara, Subtitle, Synopsis, Term, Tertiary, TertiaryIE, Title, TitleAbbrev, ToCback, ToCentry, ToCfront, ULink, and entry.

Children

FirstTerm contains these elements: Acronym, Anchor, Comment, Emphasis, InlineGraphic, Link, OLink, #PCDATA, Subscript, Superscript, Trademark, and ULink.

In some contexts, some of these elements may be invalid due to exclusions in parent elements.

Attributes

Linkend

ID of target pointed to by this element.

Examples

<PARA>
FirstTerms are the first occurrences
of terms that are to be
<FIRSTTERM>distinguished</FIRSTTERM> the first time they occur.
A FirstTerm may be given a Linkend attribute value, so that
you may link it to its GlossEntry (if any) in a
<FIRSTTERM LINKEND="phr234">Glossary</FIRSTTERM> (<PHRASE ID="phr2">a
set of definitions of words and phrases</PHRASE>, or GlossList,
or to some other explanation of the FirstTerm's content. 
</PARA>

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