property — A unit of data associated with some part of a computer system
property ::=
altanchorannotationbibliorefindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkphrase (db._phrase)remarkreplaceablesubscriptsuperscriptxrefThe notion of a Property is very domain-dependent in computer
documentation.  Some object-oriented systems speak of properties; the
components from which GUIs are constructed have properties;
and one can speak of properties in very general terms; “the properties
of a relational database.”
You might use Property for any of these in your documentation.
These elements contain property: 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 property: 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.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example property</title> <para>When Emacs is running under X Windows, the <property>borderWidth</property> resource controls the width of the external border. </para> </article>
When Emacs is running under X Windows, the borderWidth resource controls the width of the external border.