The Modular DocBook Stylesheets
DSSSL Library
Reference version 1.01
Table of Contents
%library-version%
— Defines the library version string
absolute-child-number
— Returns the absolute child number of the specified node
ancestor-member
— Returns the first ancestor in a list of GIs
assoc-objs
— Returns a list of the objects in an associative list
assoc
— Returns the association of an object in an associative list
case-fold-down-char
— Return the lowercase form of a single character
case-fold-down-charlist
— Return the list of characters, shifted to lowercase
case-fold-down
— Shift a string to lowercase
case-fold-up-char
— Return the uppercase form of a single character
case-fold-up-charlist
— Return the list of characters, shifted to uppercase
case-fold-up
— Shift a string to uppercase
component-child-number
— Find child-number within a component
constant-list
— Returns a list of the specified value
copy-string
— Return a string duplicated a specified number of times
decrement-list-members
— Decrement each member of a list
default-lowercase-list
— The default list of lowercase characters
default-uppercase-list
— The default list of uppercase characters
descendant-of?
— Returns true if the child is some descendant of the specified node
dingbat
— Map dingbat names to Unicode characters
directory-depth
— Count the directory depth of a path name
expand-children
— Expand selected nodes in a node list
expt
— Exponentiation
file-extension
— Return the extension of a filename
find-first-char
— Find the first occurance of a character in a string
has-ancestor-member?
— Returns true if the specified node has one of a set of GIs as an ancestor
ifollow
— Implements ifollow as per ISO/IEC 10179:1996
ipreced
— Implements ipreced as per ISO/IEC 10179:1996
join
— Joins a list of strings together
length-string-number-part
— Returns the numeric part of a length string
length-string-unit-part
— Returns the unit part of a length string
list->string
— Converts a list of characters into a string
list-head
— Return the head of a list
list-member-find
— Returns the index of an element in a list
list-put
— Replace a specific member of a list
match-split-list
— Splits a string at a list of targets and returns the resulting list of tokens
match-split-string-list
— Splits each string in a list of strings and returns the concatenated result list
match-split
— Splits string at target and returns the resulting list of tokens
match-substitute-sosofo
— Return matching sosofo from associative list
measurement-to-length
— Convert a measurement to a length
my-debug
— A debugging function more helpful than (debug)
node-list-filter-by-gi
— Returns selected elements from a node list
node-list-filter-by-not-gi
— Returns selected elements from a node list
node-list-filter-out-pis
— Returns the nodelist with all PIs removed
node-list-first-element
— Return the first element node in a node list
node-list-last-element
— Return the last element node in a node list
node-list-last
— Implements node-list-last as per ISO/IEC 10179:1996
node-list-length
— Implements node-list-length as per ISO/IEC 10179:1996
node-list-reduce
— Implements node-list-reduce as per ISO/IEC 10179:1996
nth-node
— Return a specific node in a node list (by numeric index)
pad-string
— Pads a string, in front, to the specified length
parse-measurement
— Parse a string containing a measurement and return the magnitude and units
repl-substring-list-repl
— Return the replacement that would be used in the string
repl-substring-list-target
— Return the target that matches in a string
repl-substring-list
— Replace the first target in the replacement list that matches
repl-substring-list?
— Perform repl-substring? with a list of target/replacement pairs
repl-substring
— Replace substring in a string
repl-substring?
— Returns true if the specified substring can be replaced
sgml-root-element
— Returns the node that is the root element of the current document
siblings
— Implements siblings as per ISO/IEC 10179:1996
split
— Splits string at whitespace and returns the resulting list of tokens
string->list
— Converts a string into a list of characters.
string-list-sosofo
— Build sosofo from a list of strings and an associative list
string-replace-list
— Replace a list of target substrings in a string
string-replace
— Replace all occurances of a target substring in a string
string-with-space
— Returns string with a space appended or the empty string
unit-conversion-alist
— Defines the base length of specific unit names
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