property
property — A unit of data associated with some part of a computer system.
Synopsis
property ::= ![[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
The notion of a property is very domain
dependent in computer documentation. Some object-oriented systems speak
of properties; the components from which GUIs are
constructed have properties; and one can speak of properties in very
general terms, as in “the properties of a relational
database.”
You might use property for any of these in your
documentation.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
Parents
These elements contain property: 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 property: 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 property</title>
<para>When Emacs is running under X Windows, the <property>borderWidth</property>
resource controls the width of the external border.
</para>
</article>
When Emacs is running under X Windows, the borderWidth resource controls the width of the external border.