The <glossentry> element defines a single sense of a glossary term. The expected book processing is to sort and group the glossary entries based on the localized term so a back-of-the-book glossary can contain a collated list of terms with the definitions of the senses of the terms indented under the terms. The glossary can have a different organization in different languages depending on the translation of the terms. One possible online processing is to associate a hotspot for mentions of terms in <term> elements and display the definition on hover or click. Glossary entries for different term senses can be reused independently of one another.
<glossentry id="ddl"> <glossterm>Data Definition Language</glossterm> <glossdef>A formal language used for defining database schemas....</glossdef> </glossentry>
Doctype | Content model |
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ditabase, glossary | ( ( glossterm) then ( glossdef) then ( related-links) (optional) then ( no-topic-nesting) (any number) ) |
- topic/topic concept/concept glossentry/glossentry
Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required? |
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id | This ID enables topics to be referenced uniquely by topicrefs in DITA maps. | ID | Yes | |
conref | This attribute is used to reference an ID on a topic that can be reused. See The conref attribute for examples and details about the syntax. | CDATA | #IMPLIED | No |
xmlns:ditaarch | Declares the default DITA namespace. | CDATA | #FIXED http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/ | |
DITAArchVersion | Designates the version of the architecture that is in use. | CDATA | "1.1" (version dependent; will increase) | No |
domains | Indicates the specialized domains that are included in the DTD or Schema. | CDATA | (topic ui-d) (topic hi-d) (topic pr-d) (topic sw-d) (topic ut-d) (topic indexing-d) | No |
%select-atts; (props, base, platform, product, audience, otherprops, importance, rev, status) | A set of related attributes, described at %select-atts; | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
%localization-atts; (translate, xml:lang, dir) | A set of related attributes, described at %localization-atts;. | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
%global-atts; (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described at %global-atts; | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
class, outputclass | Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes |
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OASIS DITA Language Specification v1.1 -- Committee Draft 02, 8 May 2007
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