Common Processing Instruction Reference
$Id: pi.xsl 8349 2009-03-17 06:53:03Z bobstayton $
IntroductionThis is generated reference documentation for all
user-specifiable processing instructions (PIs) in the
“common” part of the DocBook XSL stylesheets.
You add these PIs at particular points in a document to
cause specific “exceptions” to formatting/output behavior. To
make global changes in formatting/output behavior across an
entire document, it’s better to do it by setting an
appropriate stylesheet parameter (if there is one).dbchoice_choiceGenerates a localized choice separatordbchoice choice="and"|"or"|string"DescriptionUse the dbchoice choice PI to
generate an appropriate localized “choice” separator (for
example, and or or)
before the final item in an inline simplelistThis PI is a less-than-ideal hack; support for it may
disappear in the future (particularly if and when a more
appropriate means for marking up "choice" lists becomes
available in DocBook).Parameterschoice="and"generates a localized and separatorchoice="or"generates a localized or separatorchoice="string"generates a literal string separatordbtimestampInserts a date timestampdbtimestamp format="formatstring" [padding="0"|"1"]DescriptionUse the dbtimestamp PI at any point in a
source document to cause a date timestamp (a formatted
string representing the current date and time) to be
inserted in output of the document.Parametersformat="formatstring"Specifies format in which the date and time are
outputFor details of the content of the format string,
see Date and time.padding="0"|"1"Specifies padding behavior; if non-zero, padding is is addeddbtex_delimsGenerates delimiters around embedded TeX equations
in outputdbtex delims="no"|"yes"DescriptionUse the dbtex delims PI as a
child of a textobject containing embedded TeX
markup, to cause that markup to be surrounded by
$ delimiter characters in output.Parametersdbtex delims="no"|"yes"Specifies whether delimiters are outputRelated Global Parameterstex.math.delimsRelated Information in DocBook XSL: The Complete GuideDBTeXMath