nonterminal

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$Date: 2002-12-29 15:36:24 -0500 (Sun, 29 Dec 2002) $

nonterminal — A non-terminal in an EBNF production

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

nonterminal ::=
(#PCDATA)

Attributes

Common attributes

Name	Type	Default
def	CDATA	Required

Parameter Entities

The following parameter entities contain nonterminal:

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

Description

This element is only available if you are using the EBNF Module.

A NonTerminal is a symbol in an EBNF Production that represents a portion of the grammar.

Parents

These elements contain nonterminal: action, application, attribution, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, command, computeroutput, database, emphasis, entry, filename, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, hardware, interfacename, keycap, lineannotation, link, literal, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, olink, option, optional, para, parameter, phrase, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, property, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, rhs, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, systemitem, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, trademark, ulink, userinput.

Attributes

def

[EBNF] The def attribute contains a URI reference that points to a production where the nonterminal is defined.

Note that this is not an IDREF, it is a URI reference (as, for example, are href attributes on HTML a elements). This is necessary because references to non-terminals might need to cross document boundaries.


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