application

application — The name of a software program.

Synopsis

application ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • class (enumeration)
    • “hardware”
    • “software”

Description

The appellation “application” is usually reserved for larger software packages. For example, WordPerfect is an application, but grep is not. In some domains, application may also apply to a piece of hardware.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

class

Identifies the class of application

Enumerated values:
“hardware”

A hardware application

“software”

A software application

Parents

These elements contain application: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refclass, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, synopsisinfo, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.

Children

The following elements occur in application: 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

Related elements: database, filename, hardware, productname.

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example application</title>
  | 
  |<para><application>XMLmind</application> is one of several word
5 |processors that support DocBook <acronym>XML</acronym>.
  |</para>
  | 
  |</article>

XMLmind is one of several word processors that support DocBook XML.