The <glossShortForm> element provides a shorter alternative to the primary term specified in the <glossterm> element.
Any list of alternative terms is, of course, specific to the language, so translation of a glossentry topic may result in an empty <glossShortForm> element if there is no equivalent in the target language.
( text data or keyword or apiname or option or parmname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or term or abbreviated-form or tm) (any number) |
- topic/title concept/title glossentry/glossShortForm
<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>
A generic attribute that has no specific purpose. It is intended to act as a base for specialized attributes that have a simple value syntax like the conditional processing attributes (one or more alphanumeric values separated by whitespace), but is not itself a filtering or flagging attribute. |
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id-atts attribute group (id, conref, conrefend, conaction, conkeyref) |
A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.4 id-atts attribute group |
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localization-atts attribute group (translate, xml:lang, dir) |
A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.6 localization-atts attribute group. |
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A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.2 global-atts attribute group |
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Common attributes described in 3.4.1.9 Other common DITA attributes |