abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period
phrase (db._phrase)replaceabletrademark
altanchorannotationbibliorefindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkremarksubscriptsuperscriptxrefAn abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.
These elements contain abbrev: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glossentry, glosssee,
glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary,
primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.
The following elements occur in abbrev: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, xref.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example abbrev</title> <para>The <abbrev>Assn.</abbrev> of Computing Machinery would probably never abbreviate “Association” like this. </para> </article>
The Assn. of Computing Machinery would probably never abbreviate “Association” like this.