property

property — A unit of data associated with some part of a computer system

Synopsis

property ::= [-]

Description

The notion of a property is very domain-dependent in computer documentation. Some object-oriented systems speak of properties; the components from which GUIs are constructed have properties; and one can speak of properties in very general terms; “the properties of a relational database.

You might use property for any of these in your documentation.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Children

The following elements occur in property: 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.

See Also

classname, symbol, token, type

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example property</title>

<para>When Emacs is running under X Windows, the <property>borderWidth</property>
resource controls the width of the external border.
</para>

</article>

When Emacs is running under X Windows, the borderWidth resource controls the width of the external border.

ChangeLog

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