envar

$Revision: 1666 $

$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $

envar — A software environment variable

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

envar ::=
(%smallcptr.char.mix;)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Parameter Entities

The following parameter entities contain envar:

Parameter Entities
%cptr.char.mix;%ndxterm.char.mix;%para.char.mix;
%refinline.char.mix;%refname.char.mix;%tbl.entry.mdl;
%tech.char.class;%title.char.mix; 

Description

EnVar is an environment variable used most often for the UNIX, DOS, or Windows environments.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Children

The following elements occur in envar: beginpage, indexterm, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, replaceable.

See Also

computeroutput, filename, prompt, systemitem, userinput.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
In order to translate public identifiers into local system identifiers,
<application>Jade</application> and <application>SP</application> read the catalog files
pointed to by <envar>SGML_CATALOG_FILES</envar>.
</para>

In order to translate public identifiers into local system identifiers, Jade and SP read the catalog files pointed to by SGML_CATALOG_FILES.