This is generated reference documentation for all user-specifiable processing instructions (PIs) in the “common” part of the DocBook XSL stylesheets. You add these PIs at particular points in a document to cause specific “exceptions” to formatting/output behavior. To make global changes in formatting/output behavior across an entire document, it’s better to do it by setting an appropriate stylesheet parameter (if there is one). Generates a localized choice separator Use the dbchoice choice PI to generate an appropriate localized “choice” separator (for example, and or or) before the final item in an inline simplelist This PI is a less-than-ideal hack; support for it may disappear in the future (particularly if and when a more appropriate means for marking up "choice" lists becomes available in DocBook). dbchoice choice="and"|"or"|string" choice="and" generates a localized and separator choice="or" generates a localized or separator choice="string" generates a literal string separator choice Inserts a date timestamp Use the dbtimestamp PI at any point in a source document to cause a date timestamp (a formatted string representing the current date and time) to be inserted in output of the document. dbtimestamp format="formatstring" [padding="0"|"1"] format="formatstring" Specifies format in which the date and time are output For details of the content of the format string, see Date and time. padding="0"|"1" Specifies padding behavior; if non-zero, padding is is added format padding 1 Timestamp processing requires XSLT processor with EXSLT date support. Generates delimiters around embedded TeX equations in output Use the dbtex delims PI as a child of a textobject containing embedded TeX markup, to cause that markup to be surrounded by $ delimiter characters in output. This feature is useful for print/PDF output only if you use the obsolete and now unsupported PassiveTeX XSL-FO engine. dbtex delims="no"|"yes" dbtex delims="no"|"yes" Specifies whether delimiters are output tex.math.delims 0 0 0 0 0 Timestamp processing requires an XSLT processor with support for the EXSLT node-set() function.