varname

varname — The name of a variable

Synopsis

Zero or more of:
- text
- 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
  abbrev
  
  acronym
  
  alt
  
  anchor
  
  annotation
  
  biblioref
  
  coref
  
  date
  
  emphasis (db._emphasis)
  
  firstterm (db._firstterm)
  
  footnote
  
  footnoteref
  
  foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase)
  
  glossterm (db._glossterm)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  
  indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  
  inlinemediaobject
  
  link
  
  olink
  
  phrase (db._phrase)
  
  quote (db._quote)
  
  remark
  
  subscript
  
  superscript
  
  trademark
  
  wordasword
  
  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 (db.firstterm), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, 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, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, 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.


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