abbrev

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

Synopsis

abbrev ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional attributes.

Description

An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

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, inlinestagedir, issuenum, jobtitle, label, line, lineage, link, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, meta (db.meta.content), 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, templatename, 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.

See Also

Related elements: acronym, emphasis, foreignphrase, phrase, quote, wordasword.

Examples

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

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