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

Common 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

abbrev, emphasis, foreignphrase, phrase, quote, wordasword.

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.