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          xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
          xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
          version="5.0" xml:id="variablelist.as.table">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>variablelist.as.table</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
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<refname>variablelist.as.table</refname>
<refpurpose>Format <tag>variablelist</tag>s as tables?</refpurpose>
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<xsl:param name="variablelist.as.table" select="0"/>
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<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>

<para>If non-zero, <tag>variablelist</tag>s will be formatted as
tables. A processing instruction exists to specify a particular width for the 
column containing the <tag>term</tag>s:   
<tag class="xmlpi">dbhtml term-width=".25in"</tag></para>

<para>You can override this setting with a processing instruction as the
child of <tag>variablelist</tag>: <tag class="xmlpi">dbhtml
list-presentation="table"</tag> or <tag class="xmlpi">dbhtml
list-presentation="list"</tag>.</para>

<para>This parameter only applies to the HTML transformations. In the
FO case, proper list markup is robust enough to handle the formatting.
But see also <parameter>variablelist.as.blocks</parameter>.</para>

<programlisting>  &lt;variablelist&gt;
        &lt;?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?&gt;
        &lt;?dbhtml term-width="1.5in"?&gt;
        &lt;?dbfo list-presentation="list"?&gt;
        &lt;?dbfo term-width="1in"?&gt;
        &lt;varlistentry&gt;
          &lt;term&gt;list&lt;/term&gt;
          &lt;listitem&gt;
                &lt;para&gt;
                  Formatted as a table even if variablelist.as.table is set to 0.
                &lt;/para&gt;
          &lt;/listitem&gt;
        &lt;/varlistentry&gt;
  &lt;/variablelist&gt;</programlisting>

</refsection>
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