4.3.1 Overview

The tags can roughly be divided in 2 groups:

  1. Documentation structure tags. These are needed for fpdoc to do it’s work. They determine what elements are documented. See table (4.1)
  2. Text structure and formartting tags. These tags indicate blocks of text, such as paragraphs, tables, lists and remarks, but also specify formatting: apply formatting (make-up) to the text, or to provide links to other parts of the text. These mostly occur in text structure tags. See table (4.2)


Table 4.1: Documentation structure tags
Tag

Description

Page



descr

Element description

136
element

Identifier documentation

144
errors

Error section

146
fpdoc-description

Global tag

148
module

Unit tag

160
package

Package global tab

167
seealso

Cross-reference section

175
short

Short description

177
topic

Topic page

184





Table 4.2: Text formatting tags
Tag

Description

Page



b

Format bold

130
caption

Specify table caption

132
code

Syntax highlight code

134
dd

definition data

138
dl

definition list

140
dt

Definition term

142
i

format italics

149
img

include image

151
li

list element

153
link

Cross-reference

155
ol

numbered list

162
p

paragraph

164
pre

Preformatted text

168
remark

remark paragraph

173
table

Table

179
td

Table cell

181
th

Table header

183
tr

Table row

186
u

format underlined

188
ul

bulleted list

190
var

format as variable

192




The nodes for formatting a text resemble closely the basic HTML formatting tags with the following exceptions:

Also, if special formatting tags such as a table or lists are inserted, then the remaining text must be inside a paragraph tag. This means that the following is wrong:

<descr>  
Some beginning text  
<ol>  
<li>A list item</li>  
</ol>  
some ending text  
</descr>

Instead, the correct XML should be

<descr>  
<p>Some beginning text</p>  
<ol>  
<li>A list item</li>  
</ol>  
<p>some ending text</p>  
</descr>