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termdef — An inline definition of a term
termdef ::=
abbrevaccelacronymaltanchorannotationapplicationauthorbibliorefcitationcitebiblioidciterefentrycitetitleclassnamecodecommandcomputeroutputconstantcorefdatabasedateeditoremailemphasis (db.emphasis)envarerrorcodeerrornameerrortexterrortypeexceptionnamefilenamefirsttermfootnotefootnoterefforeignphrasefunctionglosstermguibuttonguiiconguilabelguimenuguimenuitemguisubmenuhardwarehtml:buttonhtml:fieldsethtml:inputhtml:labelhtml:selecthtml:textareaindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)initializerinlineequationinlinemediaobjectinterfacenamekeycapkeycodekeycombokeysymlinkliteralmarkupmenuchoicemethodnamemodifiermousebuttonnonterminalolinkooclassooexceptionoointerfaceoptionoptionalorgnamepackageparameterpersonnamephrase (db.phrase)productnameproductnumberpromptpropertyquoteremarkreplaceablereturnvalueshortcutsubscriptsuperscriptsymbolsystemitemtagtermdeftokentrademarktypeuriuserinputvarnamewordaswordxrefA termdef is an inline term definition. Some styles
of documentation collect all terms together in a Glossary of some sort,
but another style is to place the definitions inline.
The glossary and glosslist elements support
the former style, termdef the latter.
These elements contain termdef: bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, computeroutput, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, 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, userinput.
The following elements occur in termdef: 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, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, link, literal, markup, menuchoice, methodname, modifier, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, orgname, package, parameter, 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" xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink'> <title>termdef</title> <para>This paragraph contains an inline term definition. <termdef>A software module called an <glossterm>XML processor</glossterm> is used to read XML documents and provide access to their content and structure.</termdef> The definition comes from <link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">the XML Recommendation</link>. </para> </article>
This paragraph contains an inline term definition. [Definition: A software module called an XML processor is used to read XML documents and provide access to their content and structure.] The definition comes from the XML Recommendation.
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