acronym
acronym — An often pronounceable word made from the initial (or selected) letters of a name or phrase
Synopsis
Mixed Content Model
acronym ::=
(#PCDATA|acronym|emphasis|trademark|link|olink|ulink|anchor|
remark|subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|
indexterm|beginpage)*
Attributes
Description
A pronounceable contraction of initials. An acronym is often printed in all capitals or small capitals, although this is sometimes incorrect (consider dpi or bps).
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. The MoreInfo
attribute can help generate a link or query to retrieve additional information.
Parents
These elements contain acronym: abbrev
, acronym
, application
, attribution
, bibliomisc
, bridgehead
, citation
, citetitle
, emphasis
, entry
, firstterm
, foreignphrase
, glossentry
, glosssee
, glossseealso
, glossterm
, label
, lineannotation
, link
, literallayout
, lotentry
, manvolnum
, member
, msgaud
, olink
, para
, phrase
, primary
, primaryie
, productname
, programlisting
, quote
, refentrytitle
, refpurpose
, remark
, screen
, screeninfo
, secondary
, secondaryie
, see
, seealso
, seealsoie
, seeie
, seg
, segtitle
, simpara
, subtitle
, synopsis
, systemitem
, td
, term
, termdef
, tertiary
, tertiaryie
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, tocback
, tocentry
, tocfront
, ulink
, wordasword
.
Children
The following elements occur in acronym: acronym
, anchor
, beginpage
, emphasis
, indexterm
, inlinegraphic
, inlinemediaobject
, link
, olink
, remark
, subscript
, superscript
, trademark
, ulink
.
See Also
Examples
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
In the United States, <acronym>NASA</acronym> stands for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
</para>
In the United States, NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
For additional examples, see also application
, command
, glossary
, hardware
, option
, variablelist
.