Provides a term that is a synonym of the primary value
in the <glossterm> element.
Note: Any list of alternative terms is, of course, specific
to the language, so translation of a glossentry topic may result in
an empty <glossSynonym> element
if there is no equivalent in the target language.
Contains
Note: These models represent only the default document types distributed by OASIS.
Actual content models will differ with each new document type.
Contained by
| Doctype |
Content model |
|---|
| ditabase, glossary, glossentry, glossgroup |
glossAlt |
Inheritance
- topic/title concept/title glossentry/glossSynonym
Example
Figure 1. 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 |
|
|
|