literal

literal — Inline text that is some literal value.

Synopsis

literal ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

A literal is some specific piece of data, taken literally, from a computer system. The sorts of things that constitute literals vary by domain.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline. A literal is frequently distinguished typographically and literal is often used wherever that typographic presentation is desired.

Parents

These elements contain literal: caption (db.html.caption), citetitle, computeroutput, emphasis, entry, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link (db.link), literallayout, para, phrase (db.phrase), programlisting, quote, rddl:resource, subtitle, summary, td, term, th, title, titleabbrev, userinput.

Children

The following elements occur in literal: text, inlinemediaobject, phrase (db._phrase), replaceable, subscript, superscript.

See Also

Related elements: command, computeroutput, option, replaceable, userinput.

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<title>Example literal</title>
   | 
   |<para>There are several undocumented settings for <varname>debug</varname>,
 5 |among them <literal>3.27</literal> to enable a complete trace and
   |<literal>3.8</literal> to debug the spell checker. For a complete
   |list of the possible settings,
   |see <filename class="headerfile">edit/debug.h</filename>.</para>
   | 
10 |</article>

There are several undocumented settings for debug, among them 3.27 to enable a complete trace and 3.8 to debug the spell checker. For a complete list of the possible settings, see edit/debug.h.