I found strange non-documented code in Github inside layout.xml

I found the code like this in Github

<label id="ClockValue" x="&clockX;" y="&clockY;" font="&clockFont;" justification="Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER" color="&fgcolor;" text="" />
what does this mean and where clockX is coming from? 
x="&clockX;"
I could not find any references in the other code. I also could not find this syntax in the documentation or in the Garmin samples. But it works somehow :) I want to understand what it means.