property

property — A unit of data associated with some part of a computer system.

Synopsis

Description

The 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, as in “the properties of a relational database.

You might use property for any of these in your documentation.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 51 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 16 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example property</title>
    
  4 <para>When Emacs is running under X Windows, the <property>borderWidth</property>
    resource controls the width of the external border.
  6 </para>
    
  8 </article>

When Emacs is running under X Windows, the borderWidth resource controls the width of the external border.

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)