abbrev

abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period

Synopsis

Content Model

abbrev ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- alt
- anchor
- annotation
- biblioref
- indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
- indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- inlinemediaobject
- link
- olink
- phrase (db._phrase)
- remark
- replaceable
- subscript
- subscript
- superscript
- superscript
- trademark
- xref

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

These elements contain abbrev: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, 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.

Children

The following elements occur in abbrev: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, xref.

Examples

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

<para>The <abbrev>Assn.</abbrev> of Computing Machinery would probably never
abbreviate “Association” like this.
</para>

</article>

The Assn. of Computing Machinery would probably never abbreviate “Association” like this.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/07/07 16:40:18 $.


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