modifier

modifier — Modifiers in a synopsis.

Synopsis

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • xml:space (enumeration)
    • “preserve”

Description

A modifier identifies additional information about some identifier—for example, the public or private nature of an ooclass name, or information about a static or synchronized nature of a methodsynopsis.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

xml:space

Can be used to indicate that whitespace in the modifier should be preserved (for multi-line annotations, for example).

Enumerated values:
“preserve”

Extra whitespace and line breaks must be preserved.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 59 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 16 elements.
Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)