abbrev

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abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

abbrev ::=
(#PCDATA|acronym|emphasis|trademark|link|olink|ulink|anchor|
 remark|subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|
 indexterm|beginpage)*

Attributes

Common attributes

DocBook NG “Bourbon” Content Model

abbrev ::=

Zero or more of:

text
anchor
indexterm (indexterm.endofrange)
indexterm (indexterm.singular)
indexterm (indexterm.startofrange)
inlinemediaobject
phrase (text.phrase)
remark
replaceable
subscript
superscript
trademark

DocBook NG “Bourbon” 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: appendixinfo, application, articleinfo, attribution, biblioentry, bibliographyinfo, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockinfo, bookinfo, bridgehead, chapterinfo, citation, citetitle, emphasis, entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, glossaryinfo, glossentry, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, indexinfo, lineannotation, link, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, objectinfo, olink, para, partinfo, phrase, prefaceinfo, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, quote, refentryinfo, refentrytitle, referenceinfo, refpurpose, refsect1info, refsect2info, refsect3info, refsectioninfo, refsynopsisdivinfo, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, sect1info, sect2info, sect3info, sect4info, sect5info, sectioninfo, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebarinfo, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, ulink.

Children

The following elements occur in abbrev: acronym, anchor, beginpage, emphasis, indexterm, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, link, olink, remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, ulink.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
The <abbrev>Assn.</abbrev> of Computing Machinery would probably never
abbreviate &ldquo;Association&rdquo; like this.
</para>

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

For additional examples, see also bibliography, biblioset, footnote, glossary.


DocBook Element Reference		abstract