modifier

modifier — Modifiers in a synopsis

Synopsis

modifier ::= [-]

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • xml:space (enumeration)
    • “preserve”

Description

A modifier identifies additional information about some identifier. For example, the public or private nature of a ooclass name, or information about a static or synchronized nature of a methodsynopsis.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

xml:space

Can be used to indicate that whitespace in the modifier should be preserved (for multi-line annotations, for example).

Enumerated values:
“preserve”

Extra whitespace and line breaks must be preserved.

Children

The following elements occur in modifier: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, xref.

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 7120 $ published Sun, 22 Jul 2007.