Tag Definition: namedString

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Attributes

Name	Required?	Default_Value	Values
default	implied	None
discard	implied	None	['yes', 'no', '0', '1', 'none']
id	required	None
indexName	implied	None
new	implied	None	['yes', 'no', '0', '1', 'none']
type	none	string
Can contain (#PCDATA \| name \| getName \| pageNumber \| evalString \| loop_i \| switch_i \| assign_i \| if_i \| expr)*

Purpose

This lets you associates a name to a string of text.

Check out our docs page on this.

Example usage

<story>
    <namedString id="LASTPAGENO"><pageNumber/></namedString>
    <para>
        The last page is <getName id="LASTPAGENO" default="-999"/>
        One less than that is
        <evalString default="XXXX"><getName id="LASTPAGENO" default="-999"/> - 1</evalString>
    </para>
</story>

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