The glossShortForm element provides a shorter alternative to the primary term that is specified in the glossterm element.
Note: Any list of alternative terms is, of course, specific to the language, so translation of a
glossentry topic might result in
an empty glossShortForm element if there is no equivalent in the
target language.
Content models
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
Inheritance
- topic/title concept/title glossentry/glossShortForm
Example
<glossentry id="www"> <glossterm>World Wide Web</glossterm> <glossdef>A collection of documents available through the Internet.</glossdef> <glossBody> <glossPartOfSpeech value="noun"/> <glossAlt> <glossShortForm>the Web</glossShortForm> </glossAlt> </glossBody> </glossentry>
Attributes
The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group (without the Metadata attribute group), base from the Metadata attribute group, and outputclass.