Re: DOCBOOK: markup for default values

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Joerg Wittenberger <Joerg.Wittenberger@pobox.com> was heard to say:
| I ran into the question how to mark up default values.
| Those would be required for funcparms, synopsis etc.
| There was a thread recently about markup for python synopsis etc.,
| which would require the same thing.

Can you provide some concrete examples? Often in funcsynopses, the
default is self-evident:

  function foo(arg1, arg2, arg3="bar")

| Is there already some consensus I overlooked how this should be done? 
| Otherwise I'd suggest to extend "tech.char.class" with "DefaultValue".

In my proposal for extended synopses, I do this with a wrapper around
both the value and the default value:

<!ELEMENT FieldSynopsis - - (Modifier*, Type?, VarName, Initializer?)>

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

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