foreignphrase

foreignphrase — A word or phrase in a language other than the primary language of the document

Synopsis

Content Model

foreignphrase ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- abbrev
- acronym
- anchor
- application
- author
- biblioref
- citation
- citebiblioid
- citerefentry
- citetitle
- coref
- database
- date
- editor
- emphasis (db.emphasis)
- firstterm
- footnote
- footnoteref
- foreignphrase
- glossterm
- hardware
- indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- inlinemediaobject
- link
- olink
- orgname
- personname
- phrase (db.phrase)
- productname
- productnumber
- quote
- subscript
- superscript
- trademark
- wordasword
- xref

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

The ForeignPhrase element can be used to markup the text of a foreign word or phrase. “Foreign” in this context means that it is a language other than the primary language of the document and is not intended to be pejorative in any way.

Processing expectations

ForeignPhrases are often given special typographic treatment, such as italics.

Parents

These elements contain foreignphrase: bridgehead, 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.

Children

The following elements occur in foreignphrase: text, abbrev, acronym, anchor, application, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, coref, database, date, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), firstterm, footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase, glossterm, hardware, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, orgname, personname, phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, quote, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example foreignphrase</title>

<para>Like so many others, it became a <foreignphrase>de facto</foreignphrase>
standard.
</para>

</article>

Like so many others, it became a de facto standard.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/10/31 12:31:54 $.


footnoteref		formalpara