    | DocBook: The Definitive Guide 0.0.12 for DocBook V5.0b1 (Alpha) |
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constant — A programming or system constant
constant ::=
altanchorannotationbibliorefindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkphrase (db._phrase)remarkreplaceablesubscriptsuperscriptxrefCommon attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
A Constant identifies a value as immutable. It is most often
used to identify system limitations or other defined constants.
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
FIXME:
Enumerated values: | |
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| “limit” | FIXME: |
These elements contain constant: bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, computeroutput, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry, userinput.
The following elements occur in constant: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, xref.
command, computeroutput, literal, markup, option, optional, parameter, prompt, replaceable, tag, userinput, varname<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example constant</title> <para>In ACL, <constant>main::PCS</constant> contains the path component separator character. </para> </article>
In ACL, main::PCS contains the path component
separator character.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example constant</title> <para>The maximum legal length for a path name is <constant class='limit'>PATH_MAX</constant>, defined in <filename class='headerfile'>limits.h</filename>. </para> </article>
The maximum legal length for a path name is
PATH_MAX, defined in
limits.h.
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| conftitle | | constraint |