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  <RefEntryTitle>string-list-sosofo</RefEntryTitle>
  <RefMiscInfo Role="file">dblib.dsl</RefMiscInfo>
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  <RefName>string-list-sosofo</RefName>
  <RefPurpose>Build sosofo from a list of strings and an associative list</RefPurpose>
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<RefSynopsisDiv><Title>Synopsis</Title>
<Synopsis>
(string-list-sosofo string-list assoc-list)
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<RefSect1><Title>Description</Title>

<para>
Take a list of strings and an associative list that maps strings
to sosofos and return an appended sosofo.
</para>
<para>
(This function is used for a particular task in the DocBook stylesheets.
It may not be particularly general, but it<literal>s in </literal>dblib.dsl' because
there is nothing DTD-specific about it.)</para>


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<RefSect1><Title>Example</Title>

<para>
Given the string list <literal>("what is " "1" " " "+" " " "1")</literal>
and the associative list 
<literal>(("1" (literal "one")) ("2" (literal "two")) ("+" (literal "plus")))</literal>,
<literal>(string-list-sosofo)</literal> returns the sequence of sosofos
equivalent to <literal>(literal "what is one plus one")</literal>.
</para>


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<RefSect1><Title>Author</Title>

<para>
Norman Walsh, &lt;ndw@nwalsh.com&gt;
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<RefSect1><Title>Source Code</Title>

<ProgramListing>
(define (string-list-sosofo string-list assoc-list)
  ;; Build sosofo from a list of strings and an associative list
  (if (null? string-list)
      (empty-sosofo)
      (sosofo-append (match-substitute-sosofo (car string-list) assoc-list)
		     (string-list-sosofo (cdr string-list) assoc-list))))
</ProgramListing>
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