###### 3.2.4.1.12 glossShortForm

The <glossShortForm> element provides a shorter alternative to the primary term specified in the <glossterm> element.

Any list of alternative terms is, of course, specific to the language, so translation of a glossentry topic may result in an empty <glossShortForm> element if there is no equivalent in the target language.

###### Contains

Doctype | Content model
ditabase, glossary, glossentry, glossgroup | ( text data or keyword or apiname or option or parmname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or term or abbreviated-form or tm) (any number)

###### Contained by

Doctype | Content model
ditabase, glossary, glossentry, glossgroup | glossAlt

###### Inheritance

- topic/title concept/title glossentry/glossShortForm

###### Example

    <glossentry id="www">
      <glossterm>World Wide Web</glossterm>
      <glossdef>A collection of documents available through the Internet.</glossdef>
      <glossBody>
        <glossPartOfSpeech value="noun"/>
        <glossAlt>
          <glossShortForm>the Web</glossShortForm>
        </glossAlt>
      </glossBody>
    </glossentry>

###### Attributes

Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required?
base | A generic attribute that has no specific purpose. It is intended to act as a base for specialized attributes that have a simple value syntax like the conditional processing attributes (one or more alphanumeric values separated by whitespace), but is not itself a filtering or flagging attribute. | CDATA | #IMPLIED | No
id-atts attribute group (id, conref, conrefend, conaction, conkeyref) | A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.4 id-atts attribute group |  |  |
localization-atts attribute group (translate, xml:lang, dir) | A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.6 localization-atts attribute group. |  |  |
global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.2 global-atts attribute group |  |  |
class, outputclass | Common attributes described in 3.4.1.9 Other common DITA attributes |  |  |

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Parent Topic: 3.2.4.1 Glossentry elements

Sibling Topics:

3.2.4.1.1 glossentry

3.2.4.1.2 glossterm

3.2.4.1.3 glossdef

3.2.4.1.4 glossAbbreviation

3.2.4.1.5 glossAcronym

3.2.4.1.6 glossAlt

3.2.4.1.7 glossAlternateFor

3.2.4.1.8 glossBody

3.2.4.1.9 glossPartOfSpeech

3.2.4.1.10 glossProperty

3.2.4.1.11 glossScopeNote

3.2.4.1.13 glossStatus

3.2.4.1.14 glossSurfaceForm

3.2.4.1.15 glossSymbol

3.2.4.1.16 glossSynonym

3.2.4.1.17 glossUsage