--- doc/homework/xml.html	2001/05/21 03:35:46	1.1
+++ doc/homework/xml.html	2001/05/21 15:24:47	1.2
@@ -20,37 +20,41 @@
     <h3>Global Variables</h3>
     <ul>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::debug</i> -
+	<i>$Apache::lonxml::debug</i> - debugging control
       </li>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::pwd</i> -
+	<i>@Apache::lonxml::pwd</i> - path to the directory containing the file currently being processed 
       </li>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::outputstack</i> -
+	<i>@Apache::lonxml::outputstack</i> <br />
+	<i>$Apache::lonxml::redirection</i> - these two are used for
+	capturing a subset of the output for later processing, don't
+	touch them directly use &startredirection and &endredirection
       </li>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::redirection</i> -
+	<i>$Apache::lonxml::import</i> - controls whether the
+	&lt;import&gt; tag actually does anything
       </li>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::import</i> -
+	<i>@Apache::lonxml::extlinks</i> -
       </li>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::extlinks</i> -
+	<i>#Apache::lonxml::metamode</i> - some output is turned off,
+	the meta target wants a specific subset, use &lt;output&gt; to
+	guarentee that the catianed data will be in the parsing output
       </li>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::metamode</i> -
+	<i>#Apache::lonxml::evaluate</i> - controls whether
+	run::evaluate actually derefences variable references
       </li>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::evaluate</i> -
+	<i>%Apache::lonxml::insertlist</i> - data structure for edit
+	mode, determines what tags can go into what other tags
       </li>
       <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::insertlist</i> -
-      </li>
-      <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::namespace</i> -
-      </li>
-      <li>
-	<i>Apache::lonxml::</i> -
+	<i>@Apache::lonxml::namespace</i> - stores the list of tag
+	namespaces used in the insertlist.tab file that are currently
+	active, used only in edit mode.
       </li>
     </ul>
 	
@@ -178,24 +182,29 @@ sub BEGIN {
     <h3>Style File specific tags</h3>
     <ul>
       <li>
-	<b>&lt;definetag&gt;</b> - 
+	<b>&lt;definetag&gt;</b> - 2 arguments, <i>name</i> name of
+	new tag being defined, if proceeded with a / defining an end
+	tag, required; <i>parms</i> parameters of the new tag, the
+	value of these parameters can be accesed by $parametername.
       </li>
       <li>
-	<b>&lt;render&gt;</b> - 
+	<b>&lt;render&gt;</b> - define what the new tag does for a non meta target
       </li>
       <li>
-	<b>&lt;meta&gt;</b> - 
+	<b>&lt;meta&gt;</b> - define what the new tag does for a meta target
       </li>
       <li>
-	<b>&lt;tex&gt; / &lt;web&gt; / &lt;latexsource&gt;</b> - 
+	<b>&lt;tex&gt; / &lt;web&gt; / &lt;latexsource&gt;</b> -
+	define what a new tag does for a specific no meta target, all
+	data inside a &lt;render&gt; is render to all targets except
+	when surrounded by a specific target tags.
       </li>
     </ul>
-
     <hr>
     <address><a href="mailto:albertel@marvin.lite.msu.edu">Guy Albertelli</a></address>
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+Last modified: Mon May 21 11:21:05 EDT 2001
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