# Elementname: `Value`

## Description

Contains a text value that is passed to the surrounding element.

Allowed attributes: select

Child elements: (none)

Parent elements: A, B, Case, Color, Fontface, ForAll, I, Initial, Li, Loop, Message, NoBreak, Otherwise, Paragraph, SetVariable, Span, Sub, Sup, Text, Textblock, U, URL, Until, While

### Attributes

select (XPath Expression, optional)

  Value to be passed to the outer element.

### Remarks

The value can be passed to the outer elment either as an XPath expression or as the contents of this element.

Containing Br-tags will be interpreted as newlines.

## Example

    <Record element="data">
      <PlaceObject>
       <Textblock>
         <Paragraph>
           <Value select="@name"/><Value>, symbol=</Value><Value select="@symbol"/>
         </Paragraph>
       </Textblock>
      </PlaceObject>
    </Record>

## See also

Copy-of, XPath expressions, SetVariable

# Commands

- A
- Action
- AddSearchpath
- AtPageCreation
- AtPageShipout
- AttachFile
- Attribute
- B
- Barcode
- Bold
- BoldItalic
- Bookmark
- Box
- Br
- Case
- Circle
- Color
- Column
- Columns
- Compatibility
- Contents
- Copy-of
- DefineColor
- DefineFontalias
- DefineFontfamily
- DefineTextformat
- Element
- Fontface
- ForAll
- Frame
- Grid
- Group
- Groupcontents
- HSpace
- Hyphenation
- I
- Image
- Include
- Initial
- InsertPages
- Italic
- Layout
- Li
- LoadDataset
- LoadFontfile
- Loop
- Makeindex
- Margin
- Mark
- Message
- NewPage
- NextFrame
- NextRow
- NoBreak
- Ol
- Options
- Otherwise
- Output
- Overlay
- PDFOptions
- Pageformat
- Pagetype
- Paragraph
- PlaceObject
- Position
- PositioningArea
- PositioningFrame
- ProcessNode
- Record
- Regular
- Rule
- SaveDataset
- SavePages
- SetGrid
- SetVariable
- SortSequence
- Span
- Stylesheet
- Sub
- Sup
- Switch
- Table
- Tablefoot
- Tablehead
- Tablerule
- Td
- Text
- Textblock
- Tr
- Trace
- Transformation
- U
- URL
- Ul
- Until
- VSpace
- Value
- While

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