docs/xml/xml_help.txt

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Docbook Reference Manual (1999):
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/
DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide (2002)
- http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html

DocBook elements (what tags are allowed where)
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/refelem.html

Catalogs:
- http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/WriteCatalog.html


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xml to html markup transformations:

<programlisting> --> <pre class="programlisting">
<screen>         --> <pre class="screen">
<computeroutput> --> <tt class="computeroutput">
<literal>        --> <tt>
<emphasis>       --> <i>
<command>        --> <b class="command">
<blockquote>     --> <div class="blockquote">
                     <blockquote class="blockquote">

Important: inside <screen> and <programlisting> blocks, do NOT
use 'html entities' in your markup, eg. '&lt;' If you *do* use
them, they will be output verbatim, which is not what you want.


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<variablelist>                         --> <dl>
 <varlistentry>
  <term>TTF</term>                     --> <dt>
  <listitem>TrueType fonts.</listitem> --> <dd>
 </varlistentry>
</variablelist>                        --> <dl>


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<itemizedlist>          --> <ul>
 <listitem>             --> <li>
  <para>....</para>
  <para>....</para>
 </listitem>            --> </li>
</itemizedlist>         --> </ul>


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<orderedlist>           --> <ol>
 <listitem>             --> <li>
  <para>....</para>
  <para>....</para>
 </listitem>            --> </li>
</orderedlist>          --> </ol>


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To achieve this:

This is a paragraph of text before a list:

  * some text

  * some more text

and this is some more text after the list.

Do this:
<para>This is a paragraph of text before a list:</para>
<itemizedlist>
 <listitem>
  <para>some text</para>
 </listitem>
 <listitem>
  <para>some more text</para>
 </listitem>
</itemizedlist>


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To achieve this:
For further details, see <a href="clientreq">The Mechanism</a>

Do this:

  Given:
  <sect1 id="clientreq" xreflabel="The Mechanism">
   <title>The Mechanism</title>
   <para>...</para>
  </sect1>

  Then do:
  For further details, see <xref linkend="clientreq"/>.


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To achieve this:
<p><b>Warning:</b> Only do this if ...</p>

Do this:
<formalpara>
 <title>Warning:</title>
 <para>Only do this if ...</para>
</formalpara>

Or this:
<para><command>Warning:</command> Only do this if ... </para>


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To achieve this:
<p>It uses the Eraser algorithm described in:<br />
<br />
  Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs<br />
  Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Patrick Sobalvarro and Thomas Anderson<br />
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 15(4):391-411<br />
  November 1997.<br />
</p>

Do this:
<literallayout>
It uses the Eraser algorithm described in:

  Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs
  Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Patrick Sobalvarro and Thomas Anderson
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 15(4):391-411
  November 1997.
</literallayout>


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To achieve this:
<pre>
/* Hook to delay things long enough so we can get the pid 
   and attach GDB in another shell. */
if (0) { 
  Int p, q;
  for ( p = 0; p < 50000; p++ )
    for ( q = 0; q < 50000; q++ ) ;
</pre>

Do this:
<programlisting><![CDATA[
/* Hook to delay things long enough so we can get the pid
   and attach GDB in another shell. */
if (0) { 
  Int p, q;
  for ( p = 0; p < 50000; p++ )
    for ( q = 0; q < 50000; q++ ) ;
}]]></programlisting>


(do the same thing for <screen> tag)


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To achieve this:
  where <i><code>TAG</code></i> has the ...

Do this:
  where <emphasis><computeroutput>TAG</computeroutput></emphasis> has the ...

Note: you cannot put <emphasis> inside <computeroutput>, unfortunately.

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