Miscellaneous

DSSSL Library Reference: Part of the Modular DocBook Stylesheet distribution
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# IV. Miscellaneous

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string-with-space — Returns string with a space appended or the empty string
split — Splits string at whitespace and returns the resulting list of tokens
strip — Strip leading and trailing characters off of a string
join — Joins a list of strings together
pad-string — Pads a string, in front, to the specified length
match-split — Splits string at target 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-list — Splits a string at a list of targets and returns the resulting list of tokens
assoc-objs — Returns a list of the objects in an associative list
assoc — Returns the association of an object in an associative list
match-substitute-sosofo — Return matching sosofo from associative list
string-list-sosofo — Build sosofo from a list of strings and an associative list
repl-substring? — Returns true if the specified substring can be replaced
repl-substring — Replace substring in a string
repl-substring-list? — Perform repl-substring? with a list of target/replacement pairs
repl-substring-list-target — Return the target that matches in a string
repl-substring-list-repl — Return the replacement that would be used in the string
repl-substring-list — Replace the first target in the replacement list that matches
string-replace — Replace all occurances of a target substring in a string
string-replace-list — Replace a list of target substrings in a string
ancestor-member — Returns the first ancestor in a list of GIs
has-ancestor-member? — Returns true if the specified node has one of a set of GIs as an ancestor
descendant-of? — Returns true if the child is some descendant of the specified node
expand-children — Expand selected nodes in a node list
directory-depth — Count the directory depth of a path name
file-extension — Return the extension of a filename
copy-string — Return a string duplicated a specified number of times
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-filter-elements — Returns the elements in 'nodelist'
component-descendant-node-list — Find all 'inputnd's within an ancestor element
component-child-number — Find child-number within a component
component-list-descendant-node-list — Find all elements of a list of elements in a component
component-list-child-number — Find child-number of a list of children within a component
expt — Exponentiation
list-member-find — Returns the index of an element in a list
default-uppercase-list — The default list of uppercase characters
default-lowercase-list — The default list of lowercase characters
case-fold-down-char — Return the lowercase form of a single character
case-fold-up-char — Return the uppercase form of a single character
case-fold-down-charlist — Return the list of characters, shifted to lowercase
case-fold-up-charlist — Return the list of characters, shifted to uppercase
case-fold-down — Shift a string to lowercase
case-fold-up — Shift a string to uppercase
find-first-char — Find the first occurance of a character in a string
parse-measurement — Parse a string containing a measurement and return the magnitude and units
unit-conversion-alist — Defines the base length of specific unit names
measurement-to-length — Convert a measurement to a length
dingbat — Map dingbat names to Unicode characters
nth-node — Return a specific node in a node list (by numeric index)
constant-list — Returns a list of the specified value
list-head — Return the head of a list
list-put — Replace a specific member of a list
decrement-list-members — Decrement each member of a list
sgml-root-element — Returns the node that is the root element of the current document
sgml-root-element? — Test if a node is the root element
length-string-number-part — Returns the numeric part of a length string
length-string-unit-part — Returns the unit part of a length string
normalize — Normalize the str according to the SGML declaration in effect
node-list->string — Return a string representation of the node list
include-file — Return the literal content of fileref
url-encode-char — Returns the url-encoded equivalent of a character
url-encode-string — Returns str with all special characters %-encoded
system-id-filename — Returns the filename part of the system id of target
trim-string — Trims the tail off of a string
string-index — Finds first occurance of 'target' in 'source'
parse-pi-attribute — no documented purpose
parse-skip-pi-attribute — no documented purpose
parse-starttag-pi — Parses a structured PI and returns a list of values

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