3.2.4.1.4 glossAbbreviation

The <glossAbbreviation> element provides an abbreviated form of the term contained in a <glossterm> element.

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/glossAbbreviation

Example

The glossary term "USB flash drive" with additional information

<glossentry id="usbfd">
  <glossterm>USB flash drive</glossterm>
  <glossdef>A small portable drive.</glossdef>
  <glossBody>
    <glossPartOfSpeech value="noun"/>
    <glossUsage>Do not provide in upper case (as in "USB Flash
Drive") because that suggests a trademark.</glossUsage>
    <glossAlt>
      <glossAcronym>UFD</glossAcronym>
      <glossUsage>Explain the acronym on first occurrence.</glossUsage>
    </glossAlt>
    <glossAlt id="memoryStick">
      <glossSynonym>memory stick</glossSynonym>
      <glossUsage>This is a colloquial term.</glossUsage>
    </glossAlt>
    <glossAlt>
      <glossAbbreviation>stick</glossAbbreviation>
      <glossStatus value="prohibited"/>
      <glossUsage>This is too colloquial.</glossUsage>
      <glossAlternateFor href="#usbfd/memoryStick"/>
    </glossAlt>
    <glossAlt>
      <glossAbbreviation>flash</glossAbbreviation>
      <glossStatus value="prohibited"/>
      <glossUsage>This short form is ambiguous.</glossUsage>
    </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