abbrev
abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.
Synopsis
Attributes
Description
An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
Parents
These elements contain abbrev: abbrev, acronym, address, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, biblioentry, biblioid, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, biblioset, bibliosource, bridgehead, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, fax, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), givenname, glossentry, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, issuenum, jobtitle, label, line, lineage, link, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, olink, optional, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, primary, productname, productnumber, publishername, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, revnumber, revremark, secondary, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, shortaffil, simpara, state, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev, trademark, uri, volumenum, wordasword, year.
Children
The following elements occur in abbrev: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.
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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.




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