glossterm
The <glossterm> element specifies
the preferred term associated with a definition of a sense. If the
same term has multiple senses, create a separate <glossentry>
topic for each sense.
Contains
Note
These models represent only the default document types distributed by OASIS.
Actual content models will differ with each new document type.
| Doctype | Content model |
|---|---|
| ditabase, glossary, glossentry, glossgroup | ( text data or boolean or keyword or apiname or option or parmname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or ph or b or i or sup or sub or tt or u or codeph or synph or filepath or msgph or systemoutput or userinput or menucascade or uicontrol or q or term or abbreviated-form or tm or state or data or data-about or foreign or unknown or image) (any number) |
Contained by
| Doctype | Content model |
|---|---|
| ditabase, glossary, glossentry, glossgroup | glossentry |
Inheritance
- topic/title concept/title glossentry/glossterm
Example
The glossary term "USB flash drive" with additional information
<glossentry id="usbfd">
<glossterm>USB flash drive</glossterm>
<glossdef>A small portable drive.</glossdef>
<glossBody>
<glossPartOfSpeech value="noun"/>
<glossUsage>Do not provide in upper case (as in "USB Flash
Drive") because that suggests a trademark.</glossUsage>
<glossAlt>
<glossAcronym>UFD</glossAcronym>
<glossUsage>Explain the acronym on first occurrence.</glossUsage>
</glossAlt>
<glossAlt id="memoryStick">
<glossSynonym>memory stick</glossSynonym>
<glossUsage>This is a colloquial term.</glossUsage>
</glossAlt>
<glossAlt>
<glossAbbreviation>stick</glossAbbreviation>
<glossStatus value="prohibited"/>
<glossUsage>This is too colloquial.</glossUsage>
<glossAlternateFor href="#usbfd/memoryStick"/>
</glossAlt>
<glossAlt>
<glossAbbreviation>flash</glossAbbreviation>
<glossStatus value="prohibited"/>
<glossUsage>This short form is ambiguous.</glossUsage>
</glossAlt>
</glossBody>
</glossentry>Attributes
| Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| base | 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. The attribute takes a space-delimited set of values. However, when acting as a container for generalized attributes, the content model will be more complex; see Attribute generalization for more details. | CDATA | #IMPLIED | No |
| id-atts attribute group (id, conref, conrefend, conaction, conkeyref) | A set of related attributes, described in id-atts attribute group | |||
| localization-atts attribute group (translate, xml:lang, dir) | A set of related attributes, described in localization-atts attribute group. | |||
| global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described in global-atts attribute group | |||
| class, outputclass | Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes |