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<reference><info><title>Common Processing Instruction Reference</title>
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<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This is generated reference documentation for all
user-specifiable processing instructions (PIs) in the
“common” part of the DocBook XSL stylesheets.
<note>
<para>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).</para>
</note>
</para>
</partintro>
<refentry xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="dbchoice_choice">
<refnamediv>
<refname>dbchoice_choice</refname>
<refpurpose>Generates a localized choice separator</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis><tag class="xmlpi">dbchoice choice="and"|"or"|<replaceable>string</replaceable>"</tag></synopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para>Use the <tag class="xmlpi">dbchoice choice</tag> PI to
generate an appropriate localized “choice” separator (for
example, <literal>and</literal> or <literal>or</literal>)
before the final item in an inline <tag>simplelist</tag></para>
<warning>
<para>This 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).</para>
</warning>
</refsect1><refsect1><title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>choice="and"</term>
<listitem>
<para>generates a localized <literal>and</literal> separator</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>choice="or"</term>
<listitem>
<para>generates a localized <literal>or</literal> separator</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>choice="<replaceable>string</replaceable>"</term>
<listitem>
<para>generates a literal <replaceable>string</replaceable> separator</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1></refentry>
<refentry xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="dbtimestamp">
<refnamediv>
<refname>dbtimestamp</refname>
<refpurpose>Inserts a date timestamp</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis><tag class="xmlpi">dbtimestamp format="<replaceable>formatstring</replaceable>" [padding="0"|"1"]</tag></synopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para>Use the <tag class="xmlpi">dbtimestamp</tag> 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.</para>
</refsect1><refsect1><title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>format="<replaceable>formatstring</replaceable>"</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies format in which the date and time are
output</para>
<note>
<para>For details of the content of the format string,
see <link role="tcg" xlink:href="Datetime.html">Date and time</link>.</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>padding="0"|"1"</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies padding behavior; if non-zero, padding is is added</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1></refentry>
<refentry xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="dbtex_delims">
<refnamediv>
<refname>dbtex_delims</refname>
<refpurpose>Generates delimiters around embedded TeX equations
in output</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis><tag class="xmlpi">dbtex delims="no"|"yes"</tag></synopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para>Use the <tag class="xmlpi">dbtex delims</tag> PI as a
child of a <tag>textobject</tag> containing embedded TeX
markup, to cause that markup to be surrounded by
<literal>$</literal> delimiter characters in output.</para>
<warning>
<para>This feature is useful for print/PDF output only if you
use the obsolete and now unsupported PassiveTeX XSL-FO
engine.</para>
</warning>
</refsect1><refsect1><title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>dbtex delims="no"|"yes"</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies whether delimiters are output</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1><refsect1 role="params"><title>Related Global Parameters</title>
<para><parameter>tex.math.delims</parameter></para>
</refsect1></refentry>
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