glossterm — A glossary term
glossterm ::=
abbrevaccelacronymaltanchorannotationapplicationauthorbibliorefcitationcitebiblioidciterefentrycitetitleclassnamecodecommandcomputeroutputconstantcorefdatabasedateeditoremailemphasis (db.emphasis)envarerrorcodeerrornameerrortexterrortypeexceptionnamefilenamefirsttermfootnotefootnoterefforeignphrasefunctionglosstermguibuttonguiiconguilabelguimenuguimenuitemguisubmenuhardwarehtml:buttonhtml:fieldsethtml:inputhtml:labelhtml:selecthtml:textareaindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)initializerinlineequationinlinemediaobjectinterfacenamekeycapkeycodekeycombokeysymlinkliteralmarkupmenuchoicemethodnamemodifiermousebuttonnonterminalolinkooclassooexceptionoointerfaceoptionoptionalorgnamepackageparameterpersonnamephrase (db.phrase)productnameproductnumberpromptpropertyquoteremarkreplaceablereturnvalueshortcutsubscriptsuperscriptsymbolsystemitemtagtermdeftokentrademarktypeuriuserinputvarnamewordaswordxrefGlossTerm identifies a term that appears in a
Glossary or GlossList.  This element
occurs in two very different places: it is both an inline, and a
structure element of a GlossEntry.  As an inline, it
identifies a term defined in a glossary, and may point to it.
Within a GlossEntry, it identifies the term defined
by that particular entry.
As an inline, GlossTerms frequently get special typographic
treatment, such as italics. In an online environment, they may also
form a link (explicitly or implicitly) to the corresponding definition
in a glossary.
GlossTerms must not be nested within other
GlossTerms. Because DocBook is harmonizing towards
XML, this restriction is difficult to enforce with the
DTD. The processing of nested GlossTerms is
undefined.
As part of a GlossEntry, GlossTerms are usually
set as block and separated from the definition.
These elements contain glossterm: bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glossentry, 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 glossterm: 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.