systemitem — A system-related item or term
cophrase (db._phrase)replaceable
altanchorannotationbibliorefindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobjectlinkolinkremarksubscriptsuperscriptxrefCommon attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
A systemitem identifies any system-related item or term. The class attribute defines a number of common system-related terms.
Many inline elements in DocBook are, in fact, system-related. Some of the objects identified by the class attribute on systemitem may eventually migrate out to be inline elements of their own accord…and vice versa.
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Identifies the nature of the system item
| Enumerated values: | |
|---|---|
| “daemon” |
A daemon or other system process (syslogd) |
| “domainname” |
A domain name (example.com) |
| “etheraddress” |
An ethernet address (00:05:4E:49:FD:8E) |
| “event” |
An event of some sort (SIGHUP) |
| “eventhandler” |
An event handler of some sort (hangup) |
| “filesystem” |
A filesystem (ext3) |
| “fqdomainname” |
A fully qualified domain name (my.example.com) |
| “groupname” |
A group name (wheel) |
| “ipaddress” |
An IP address (127.0.0.1) |
| “library” |
A library (libncurses) |
| “macro” |
A macro |
| “netmask” |
A netmask (255.255.255.192) |
| “newsgroup” |
A newsgroup (comp.text.xml) |
| “osname” |
An operating system name (Hurd) |
| “process” |
A process (gnome-cups-icon) |
| “protocol” |
A protocol (ftp) |
| “resource” |
A resource |
| “server” |
A server (mail.example.com) |
| “service” |
A service (ppp) |
| “systemname” |
A system name (hephaistos) |
| “username” |
A user name (ndw) |
These elements contain systemitem: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), 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 systemitem: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, co, 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'
xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink'>
<title>Example systemitem</title>
<para>For many years, O'Reilly's primary web server,
<link xlink:href="http://www.oreilly.com/">http://www.oreilly.com/</link>,
was hosted by <application>WN</application> on
<systemitem class="systemname">helio.oreilly.com</systemitem>.
</para>
</article>
For many years, O'Reilly's primary web server, http://www.oreilly.com/, was hosted by WN on helio.oreilly.com.