classname

classname — The name of a class, in the object-oriented programming sense.

Synopsis

classname ::=

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 attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional attributes.

Description

The classname tag is used to identify the name of a class. This is likely to occur only in documentation about object-oriented programming systems, languages, and architectures.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute: Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain classname: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, ooclass, 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 classname: 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 classname</title>
  | 
  |<para>All user-interface components must be descendants of the
5 |<classname>Widget</classname> class.
  |</para>
  | 
  |</article>

All user-interface components must be descendants of the Widget class.