envar

envar — A software environment variable.

Synopsis

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

An envar is an “environment variable.” Environment variables are used most often in the UNIX, DOS, and Windows environments.

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 envar</title>
    
  4 <para>In order to translate public identifiers into local system identifiers,
    <application>Jade</application> and <application>SP</application> read the catalog files
  6 pointed to by <envar>SGML_CATALOG_FILES</envar>.
    </para>
  8 
    </article>

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


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