varname

varname — The name of a variable.

Synopsis

varname ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- replaceable
- Graphic inlines
  - inlinemediaobject
- Indexing inlines
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
  - 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
  - subscript
  - superscript
  - trademark
  - wordasword
  - xref

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

None.

Description

A varname identifies a variable name in a programming or expression language. Variables most often get their values from literals, replaceable values, constants, or symbols.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

any attribute: Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain varname: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, fieldsynopsis, firstterm (db.firstterm), 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), 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, type.

Children

The following elements occur in varname: 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

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example varname</title>
  | 
  |<para>In Perl, <varname>@ARGV</varname> contains the command line parameters
5 |used when the script was run.
  |</para>
  | 
  |</article>

In Perl, @ARGV contains the command line parameters used when the script was run.