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DocBook: The Definitive Guide

DocBook: The Definitive Guide

By Norman Walsh & Leonard Muellner
1st Edition October 1999
1-56592-580-7, Order Number: 5807
652 pages, $36.95 , Includes CD-ROM

Tertiary

Name

Tertiary -- A tertiary word or phrase in an index term

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

Tertiary ::=
((#PCDATA|FootnoteRef|XRef|Abbrev|Acronym|Citation|CiteRefEntry|
  CiteTitle|Emphasis|FirstTerm|ForeignPhrase|GlossTerm|Footnote|
  Phrase|Quote|Trademark|WordAsWord|Link|OLink|ULink|Action|
  Application|ClassName|Command|ComputerOutput|Database|Email|
  EnVar|ErrorCode|ErrorName|ErrorType|Filename|Function|GUIButton|
  GUIIcon|GUILabel|GUIMenu|GUIMenuItem|GUISubmenu|Hardware|
  Interface|InterfaceDefinition|KeyCap|KeyCode|KeyCombo|KeySym|
  Literal|Constant|Markup|MediaLabel|MenuChoice|MouseButton|
  MsgText|Option|Optional|Parameter|Prompt|Property|Replaceable|
  ReturnValue|SGMLTag|StructField|StructName|Symbol|SystemItem|
  Token|Type|UserInput|VarName|Anchor|Author|AuthorInitials|
  CorpAuthor|ModeSpec|OtherCredit|ProductName|ProductNumber|
  RevHistory|Comment|Subscript|Superscript|InlineGraphic|
  InlineMediaObject)+)

Attributes

Common attributes

Name

Type

Default

SortAsCDATANone

Tag Minimization

The start-tag is required for this element. The end-tag is optional, if your SGML declaration allows minimization.

Description

Tertiary contains a third-level word or phrase in an IndexTerm. The text of a Tertiary term is less significant than the Primary and Secondary terms for sorting and display purposes.

DocBook does not define any additional levels. You cannot use IndexTerms to construct indexes with more than three levels without extending the DTD.

In IndexTerms, you can only have one primary, secondary, and tertiary term. If you want to index multiple tertiary terms for the same primary and secondary, you must repeat the primary and secondary in another IndexTerm. You cannot place several Tertiarys in the same primary.

Processing expectations

Suppressed. This element provides data for processing but is not rendered in the primary flow of text.

(4.0) Future Changes

The InterfaceDefinition element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.

Parents

These elements contain Tertiary: IndexTerm.

Attributes

SortAs

SortAs specifies the string by which the element's content is to be sorted. If unspecified, the proper content is used.

See Also

IndexEntry, IndexTerm, Primary, PrimaryIE, Secondary, SecondaryIE, See, SeeAlso, SeeAlsoIE, SeeIE, TertiaryIE

Examples

For examples, see IndexTerm.

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