abbrev

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

Synopsis

abbrev ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- phrase (db._phrase)
- replaceable
- Graphic inlines
  - inlinemediaobject
- Product inlines
  - trademark
- Ubiquitous inlines

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: bibliomixed, bibliomset, caption (db.html.caption), citetitle, emphasis, entry, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link (db.link), literallayout, para, phrase (db.phrase), programlisting, quote, rddl:resource, subtitle, summary, td, term, th, title, titleabbrev.

Children

The following elements occur in abbrev: text, inlinemediaobject, phrase (db._phrase), replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark.

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.