envar
envar — A software environment variable.
Synopsis
envar ::= ![[x]](figs/web/nav/delete.gif)
![[+]](figs/web/nav/right.gif)
![[-]](figs/web/nav/down.gif)
- Zero or more of:
- text
replaceable- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
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
These elements contain envar: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, computeroutput, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry, userinput.
Children
The following elements occur in envar: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.
See Also
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example envar</title>
<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>
</article>
In order to translate public identifiers into local system identifiers,
Jade and SP read the catalog files
pointed to by SGML_CATALOG_FILES.