varname

varname — The name of a variable

Synopsis

Content Model

varname ::=

Zero or more of:
- 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

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

A VarName identifies a variable name in a programming or expression language. Variables most often get their values from Literals, Replaceable values, Constants, or Symbols.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

These elements contain varname: bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, fieldsynopsis, 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.

Children

The following elements occur in varname: 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.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example varname</title>

<para>In Perl, <varname>@ARGV</varname> contains the command line parameters
used when the script was run.
</para>

</article>

In Perl, @ARGV contains the command line parameters used when the script was run.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/10/31 12:31:58 $.


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