V5.2enumsynopsis

enumsynopsis — The syntax summary for an enumerated-type definition.

Synopsis

enumsynopsis ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • language
  • ordered (enumeration)
    • “0”
    • “1”
  • packageref

Additional Constraints

  • If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.

Description

A enumsynopsis contains the syntax summary of a union (generally speaking, unions programming language sense).

This is one of the few places where DocBook attempts to model as well as describe. The content model of enumsynopsis was designed to capture a wide range of semantics.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

language

Identifies the language (i.e. programming language) of the content

ordered

Indicates how the value of an enumeration is specified.

Enumerated values:
“0”

Value of enum is specified explicitly using enumvalue

“1”

Value of enum is inferred from its position

packageref

Identifies the package to which this synopsis (logically) belongs

Parents

These elements contain enumsynopsis: abstract, acknowledgements, annotation, answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, callout, calloutlist, caption (db.caption), caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, cover, danger, dedication, entry, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, meta (db.meta.content), msgexplan, msgtext, note, orderedlist, packagesynopsis, para, partintro, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, result, revdescription, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, td, textobject, th, tip, toc, tocdiv, topic, variablelist, warning.

Children

The following elements occur in enumsynopsis: enumitem, enumname, info (db.titleforbidden.info), modifier, package, synopsisinfo.