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
production
where thenonterminal
is 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
.