WordAsWord

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WordAsWord

Name

WordAsWord -- Word

Content Model

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

Attributes

This element has common and Role attributes.

Tag Minimization

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

Description

Word (or letter or number) used not to represent the thing or idea it usually represents, but merely as the word itself. For example, "The term <WORDASWORD>Gothic</WORDASWORD> means different things to art historians and typographers," or for a single character, "the letter <WORDASWORD>X</WORDASWORD>". It contains plain text and has common attributes.

Parents

These elements contain WordAsWord: 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, entry.

Children

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

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

Examples

<PARA>
WordAsWord is a bit of a black sheep in computer documentation,
but you may find that you can use it to clarify
why you emphasize a term in tricky constructions:
for example, why was the word
<WORDASWORD>list</WORDASWORD> chosen to be
a command in one system and a filename in another?
</PARA>

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