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-           xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
 
-           xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
 
-           xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
 
-           xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 
-           version="5.0" xml:id="variablelist.as.blocks">
 
- <refmeta>
 
- <refentrytitle>variablelist.as.blocks</refentrytitle>
 
- <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
 
- </refmeta>
 
- <refnamediv>
 
- <refname>variablelist.as.blocks</refname>
 
- <refpurpose>Format <tag>variablelist</tag>s lists as blocks?</refpurpose>
 
- </refnamediv>
 
- <refsynopsisdiv>
 
- <src:fragment xml:id="variablelist.as.blocks.frag">
 
- <xsl:param name="variablelist.as.blocks" select="0"/>
 
- </src:fragment>
 
- </refsynopsisdiv>
 
- <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
 
- <para>If non-zero, <tag>variablelist</tag>s will be formatted as
 
- blocks.</para>
 
- <para>If you have long terms, proper list markup in the FO case may produce
 
- unattractive lists. By setting this parameter, you can force the stylesheets
 
- to produce block markup instead of proper lists.</para>
 
- <para>You can override this setting with a processing instruction as the
 
- child of <tag>variablelist</tag>: <tag class="xmlpi">dbfo
 
- list-presentation="blocks"</tag> or <tag class="xmlpi">dbfo
 
- list-presentation="list"</tag>.</para>
 
- <para>When using <literal>list-presentation="list"</literal>,
 
- you can also control the amount of space used for the <tag>term</tag>s with 
 
- the <tag class="xmlpi">dbfo term-width=".25in"</tag> processing instruction,
 
- the <tag class="attribute">termlength</tag> attribute on <tag>variablelist</tag>,
 
- or allow the stylesheets to attempt to calculate the amount of space to leave based on the 
 
- number of letters in the longest term.  
 
- </para>
 
- <programlisting>  <variablelist>
 
-         <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 
-         <?dbfo term-width="1.5in"?>
 
-         <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 
-         <?dbhtml term-width="1.5in"?>
 
-         <varlistentry>
 
-           <term>list</term>
 
-           <listitem>
 
-                 <para>
 
-                   Formatted as a list even if variablelist.as.blocks is set to 1.
 
-                 </para>
 
-           </listitem>
 
-         </varlistentry>
 
-   </variablelist></programlisting>
 
- </refsection>
 
- </refentry>
 
 
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