The abbr element represents an abbreviation.
The expansion of the abbreviation is provided through the expansion
element. The for attribute on abbr must resolve to
an expansion element.
The type of abbreviation can be provided using the type attribute.
<head> … <expansion xml:id="rn">Royal Navy</expansion> … </head> <body> … <p> … a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, <abbr for="rn">R.N.</abbr>, sailed from Devonport … </p> … </body>
This element may contain text. It may contain the following children: its:ruby and span.
annotation, annotation, block, caption, caption, cite, definition, emph, expansion, h, hd, item, item, l, meta, object, p, quote, quote, its:rb, ref, its:rt, s, span, td and th
http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2010/
This element belongs to the core grammar.
| Name | Presence | Description |
|---|---|---|
| about | Optional | This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes
collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C
RDF/a primer.
Value: One of • value(s) of type
anyURI • value(s) of type
string satisfying
• the pattern "
(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+"
• a minimum length of 1
|
| class | Optional | Value: Some value of type NMTOKENS
|
| content | Optional | This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes
collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C
RDF/a primer.
Value: Any string |
| datatype | Optional | This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes
collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C
RDF/a primer.
Value: Some value of type string satisfying
• the pattern "
(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+"
• a minimum length of 1
|
| for | Optional | No further information about this attribute is
available. Value: Some value of type IDREFS
|
| property | Optional | This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes
collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C
RDF/a primer.
Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying
• the pattern "
(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+"
• a minimum length of 1
|
| rel | Optional | This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes
collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C
RDF/a primer.
Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying
• the pattern "
(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+"
• a minimum length of 1
|
| resource | Optional | This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes
collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C
RDF/a primer.
Value: One of • value(s) of type
anyURI • value(s) of type
string satisfying
• the pattern "
(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+"
• a minimum length of 1
|
| rev | Optional | This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes
collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C
RDF/a primer.
Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying
• the pattern "
(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+"
• a minimum length of 1
|
| role | Optional | The role attribute allows the author to annotate
elements with machine-extractable semantic information about the nature or purpose of an
element. The value of the role attribute is one or several QNames,
which when expanded resolves to a class or property in an RDF vocabulary. The role attribute generates an RDF triple, scoped to the current element. As compared to RDFa, the expression <x role="foo:bar"/>
is equivalent to
<x xml:id="baz" about="#baz" property="foo:bar"/>
The Z39.86 role attribute has been designed to be functionally compatible with the W3C XHTML Role Attribute Module. This module itself does not define a method to assign default prefixes to used QNames; such practice is application specific. Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type QName
|
| type | Optional | No further information about this attribute is
available. Value: One of •
acronym •
initialism |
| typeof | Optional | This attribute is part of the RDF/a metadata attributes
collection. For more information on the usage of RDF/a, consult the W3C
RDF/a primer.
Value: A white space separated list of one or more value(s) of type string satisfying
• the pattern "
(([\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)?:)?.+"
• a minimum length of 1
|
| its:dir | Optional |
The its:dir attribute is used to specify the base writing
direction of the content. If not specified, the default value
ltr is assumed.
Consult Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) for further information. This attribute belongs to the feature «ITS Ruby» Value: One of •
lro •
ltr •
rlo •
rtl |
| its:translate | Optional |
The its:translate attribute expresses information about
whether the content of an element should be translated or not.
If not specified, the default value "yes" is assumed. Consult Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) for further information. This attribute belongs to the feature «ITS Ruby» Value: One of •
no •
yes |
| xml:base | Optional | Value: Some value of type anyURI
|
| xml:id | Optional | Value: Some value of type ID
|
| xml:lang | Optional |
The xml:lang attribute is used to identify
the natural or formal language in which the content is written.
Consult Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 for further information. Value: Some value of type language
|
| xml:space | Optional | Value: One of •
default •
preserve |