<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Part 4. Common Processing Instruction Reference</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets User Reference: PIs"><link rel="prev" href="dbman_funcsynopsis-style.html" title="dbman_funcsynopsis-style"><link rel="next" href="dbchoice_choice.html" title="dbchoice_choice"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Part 4. Common Processing Instruction Reference</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dbman_funcsynopsis-style.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">DocBook XSL Stylesheets User Reference: PIs</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dbchoice_choice.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="part"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="pi-common"></a>Part 4. Common Processing Instruction Reference</h1></div><div><p class="releaseinfo"> $Id: pi.xsl 8782 2010-07-27 21:15:17Z mzjn $ </p></div></div></div> <div class="partintro"><div><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="partintro"></a>Introduction</h1></div></div></div> <p>This is generated reference documentation for all user-specifiable processing instructions (PIs) in the “common” part of the DocBook XSL stylesheets. </p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>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).</p> </div><p> </p> <div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="dbchoice_choice.html">dbchoice_choice</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Generates a localized choice separator</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="dbtimestamp.html">dbtimestamp</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Inserts a date timestamp</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="dbtex_delims.html">dbtex_delims</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Generates delimiters around embedded TeX equations in output</span></dt></dl></div></div> </div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dbman_funcsynopsis-style.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="index.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dbchoice_choice.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dbman_funcsynopsis-style </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dbchoice_choice</td></tr></table></div></body></html>