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+## Copyright (C) 1993-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
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+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} xlabel (@var{string})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} xlabel (@var{h}, @var{string})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} xlabel (@dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ylabel (@dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} zlabel (@dots{})
+## Specify x-, y-, or z-axis labels for the current axis. If @var{h} is
+## specified then label the axis defined by @var{h}.
+##
+## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created object.
+## @seealso{title, text}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function retval = xlabel (varargin)
+
+ [h, varargin, nargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("xlabel", varargin{:});
+
+ if (rem (nargin, 2) != 1)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ tmp = __axis_label__ (h, "xlabel", varargin{:},
+ "color", get (h, "xcolor"));
+
+ if (nargout > 0)
+ retval = tmp;
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!test
+%! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
+%! unwind_protect
+%! x = xlabel ("xlabel_string");
+%! assert (get (gca, "xlabel"), x);
+%! assert (get (x, "type"), "text");
+%! assert (get (x, "visible"), "on");
+%! assert (get (x, "string"), "xlabel_string");
+%! unwind_protect_cleanup
+%! close (hf);
+%! end_unwind_protect
+