varname

varname — The name of a variable

Synopsis

varname ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- phrase (db._phrase)
- replaceable
- Graphic inlines
  inlinemediaobject
- Indexing inlines
  indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- Linking inlines
  anchor
  
  biblioref
  
  link
  
  olink
  
  xref
- Ubiquitous inlines
  alt
  
  anchor
  
  annotation
  
  biblioref
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  
  inlinemediaobject
  
  link
  
  olink
  
  remark
  
  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, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, 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: 7120 $ published Sun, 22 Jul 2007.


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