nixos: Split paras by \n\n in option descriptions
What annoyed me for a long time was the fact, that in order to break into a new paragraph, you need to insert </para><para> in the description attribute of an option. Now we will automatically create <para/> elements for every block that is separated by two consecutive newlines. I first tried to do this within options-to-docbook.xsl, but it turns out[1] that this isn't directly possible with XSLT 1.0, so I added another XSLT file that postprocesses the option descriptions that are now enclosed in <nixos:option-description/> by options-to-docbook.xsl. The splitting itself is a bit more involved, because we can't simply split on every \n\n because we'd also split text nodes of elements, for example: <screen><![CDATA[ one line another one ]]></screen> This would create one <para/> element for "one line" and another for "another line", which we obviously don't want because <screen/> is used to display verbatim contents of what a user is seeing on the screen. So what we do instead is splitting *only* the top-level text nodes within the outermost <para/> and leave all elements as-is. If there are more than one <para/> elements at the top-level, we simply don't process it at all, because the description then already contains </para><para>. https://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/xsl-list/2012-09/msg00319.html Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build> Cc: @edolstra, @domenkozar
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