DocBook 5.1: The Definitive Guide  (Version 1.5.3 for DocBook 5.1)

envar

envar — A software environment variable.

Synopsis

envar ::= [-]

Description

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

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

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.

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.