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medialabel

Name

medialabel -- A name that identifies the physical medium on which some information resides

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model 
medialabel ::=
(#PCDATA|replaceable|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|indexterm|
 beginpage)*
Attributes Common attributes

Name

Type

Default
class
cartridge
cdrom
disk
tape
None
Parameter Entities
cptr.char.mix ndxterm.char.mix para.char.mix
refinline.char.mix refname.char.mix tbl.entry.mdl
tech.char.class title.char.mix  

Description

The MediaLabel element identifies the name of a specific piece of physical media, such as a tape or disk label. Usually, a media label is something external, written by hand on the media itself, for example, but it may also refer to digital labels.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

These elements contain medialabel: action, application, attribution, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, command, computeroutput, database, emphasis, entry, filename, foreignphrase, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, hardware, interfacename, keycap, lineannotation, link, literal, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, olink, option, optional, para, parameter, phrase, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, property, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, systemitem, term, tertiary, tertiaryie, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, trademark, ulink, userinput.

Children

The following elements occur in medialabel: beginpage, indexterm, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, replaceable.

Attributes

class

Class indicates the type of media labeled.

See Also

application, database, filename, hardware, productname.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
To install <application>The Great Foo</application>, insert the disk
labelled <medialabel>TGF Setup 1</medialabel> and run 
<command>setup</command>.
</para>

To install The Great Foo, insert the disk labelled TGF Setup 1 and run setup.

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
The weekly incremental backup tape is labelled
<medialabel>Backup <replaceable>nn</replaceable></medialabel>, where
<replaceable>nn</replaceable> is the week number.
</para>

The weekly incremental backup tape is labelled Backup nn, where nn is the week number.

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