abbrev

abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.

Synopsis

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

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

This element occurs in 55 elements.

Children

This element contains 17 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example abbrev</title>
    
  4 <para>The <abbrev>Assn.</abbrev> of Computing Machinery would probably never
    abbreviate “Association” like this.
  6 </para>
    
  8 </article>

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


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