nonterminal
nonterminal — A non-terminal in an EBNF production.
Synopsis
nonterminal ::=
- text
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
- def (anyURI)
Required attributes are shown in bold.
Description
A nonterminal is a symbol in an EBNF
production that represents a portion of the
grammar.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
Notice that the def
attribute is not an IDREF, it is a URI.
References to nonterminals often cross document boundaries, making
ID/IDREF linking impossible.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- def
Specifies a URI that points to a
productionwhere thenonterminalis defined
Parents
These elements contain nonterminal: 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, rhs, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry, userinput.
Examples
See productionset.