glossShortForm

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 Part 2: Technical Content Edition

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Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 Part 2: Technical Content Edition
Version
1.3
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OASIS DITA Technical Committee

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.