VARIABLE Element

VARIABLE (a child element of STEP) is used to define a variable which stores a value for use as the value of other elements.

Supported Values

VARIABLE supports the use of its own child elements as values. For a list of supported child elements please refer to the tree menu on the left.

Remarks

The stored value of a variable can be used in any child elements of STEP which supports the use of text or number as value. Therefore a variable with a text string as value can be used as a text value in other elements, while a variable with a number as value can be used as a numerical value in other elements.

Examples

In this example, VARIABLE is used to define a variable _DefaultWidth_ with the value as 500, and then this variable is used as the value of another element.

• <STEP>
• • ......
  • <VARIABLE>
  • • <NAME>_DefaultWidth_</NAME>
    • <VALUE>500</VALUE>
  • </VARIABLE>
  • ......
  • <OBJECT>
  • • <NAME>Map</NAME>
    • <WIDTH>_DefaultWidth_</WIDTH>
  • </OBJECT>
• </STEP>