Conventions Used In This Guide - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

Conventions used in this guide

The following typographical conventions are used in this guide:
•
font indicates code fragments and API literals, including class names, method names,
Code
function names, type names, scripts, SQL statements, and both HTML and XML tag and
attribute names.
•
Italic code
•
The continuation symbol (
more lines. Due to margin limits in this book's format, what is otherwise a continuous line of
code must be split. When copying the lines of code, eliminate the continuation symbol, and
type the lines as one line.
•
Curly braces ({ }) that surround a function argument indicate that the argument is optional.
•
Function names that have the prefix
abbreviated to
dreamweaver.
shorter prefix, however.
dw.
The following naming conventions are used in this guide:
•
You—the developer who is responsible for writing extensions
•
The user—the person using Dreamweaver
•
The visitor—the person who views the web page that the user created
font indicates replaceable items in code.
) indicates that a long line of code has been broken across two or
¬
when you are writing code. This manual uses the full
dw.funcname
prefix when defining the function and in the index. Many examples use the
as in
dreamweaver. dreamweaver.funcname
Conventions used in this guide
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