3.2.4.1.2 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

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

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