  
  [1X4 [33X[0;0YDistributing a Document into Several Files[133X[101X
  
  [33X[0;0YIn  [5XGAPDoc[105X there are facilities to distribute a single document over several
  files.  This  is  for  example  interesting,  if  one  wants  to  store  the
  documentation  of  some code in the same file as the code itself. Or, if one
  just wants to store chapters of a document in separate files. There is a set
  of  conventions  how  this  is  done  and some tools to collect the text for
  further processing.[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YThe  technique  can  also  be  used to distribute and collect other types of
  documents   into   respectively  from  several  files  (e.g.,  source  code,
  examples).[133X
  
  
  [1X4.1 [33X[0;0YThe Conventions[133X[101X
  
  [33X[0;0YIn  this  description  we  use  the  string  [10XGAPDoc[110X  for marking pieces of a
  document to collect.[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YPieces of documentation that shall be incorporated into another document are
  marked as follows:[133X
  
  [4X[32X  Example  [32X[104X
    [4X[28X##  <#GAPDoc Label="MyPiece">[128X[104X
    [4X[28X##  <E>This</E> is the piece.[128X[104X
    [4X[28X##  The hash characters are removed.[128X[104X
    [4X[28X##  <#/GAPDoc>[128X[104X
  [4X[32X[104X
  
  [33X[0;0YThis piece is then included into another file by a statement like: [10X<#Include
  Label="MyPiece">[110X Here are the exact rules, how pieces are gathered:[133X
  
  [30X    [33X[0;6YAll   lines   up   to   a   line  containing  the  character  sequence
        [21X[10X<#GAPDoc Label="[110X[121X  (exactly  one  space  character)  are  ignored.  The
        characters on the same line before this sequence are stored as [21Xprefix[121X.
        The  characters  after  the  sequence  up  to  the  next double quotes
        character  are  stored  as [21Xlabel[121X. All other characters in the line are
        ignored.[133X
  
  [30X    [33X[0;6YThe  following  lines  up  to a line containing the character sequence
        [21X[10X<#/GAPDoc>[110X[121X  are  stored  under the label. These lines are processed as
        follows: The longest possible substring from the beginning of the line
        that equals the corresponding substring of the prefix is removed.[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YHaving stored a list of labels and pieces of text gathered as above this can
  be used as follows.[133X
  
  [30X    [33X[0;6YIn  [5XGAPDoc[105X  documentation  files  all statements of the form [21X[10X<#Include
        Label="Key">[110X[121X  are  replaced  by the sequence of lines stored under the
        label [10XKey[110X.[133X
  
  [30X    [33X[0;6YAdditionally,  every  occurrence  of a statement of the form [21X[10X<#Include
        SYSTEM "Filename">[110X[121X is replaced by the whole file stored under the name
        [10XFilename[110X in the file system.[133X
  
  [30X    [33X[0;6YThese substitutions are done recursively (although one should probably
        avoid to use this extensively).[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YHere is another example:[133X
  
  [4X[32X  Example  [32X[104X
    [4X[28X# # <#GAPDoc Label="AnotherPiece">  some characters[128X[104X
    [4X[28X# # This text is not indented.[128X[104X
    [4X[28X#  This text is indented by one blank.[128X[104X
    [4X[28X#Not indented.[128X[104X
    [4X[28X#<#/GAPDoc>[128X[104X
  [4X[32X[104X
  
  [33X[0;0Yreplaces [10X<#Include Label="AnotherPiece">[110X by[133X
  
  [4X[32X  Example  [32X[104X
    [4X[28XThis text is not indented.[128X[104X
    [4X[28X This text is indented by one blank. [128X[104X
    [4X[28XNot indented.[128X[104X
  [4X[32X[104X
  
  [33X[0;0YSince  these  rules  are  very simple it is quite easy to write a program in
  almost any programming language which does this gathering of text pieces and
  the  substitutions.  In  [5XGAPDoc[105X  there  is the [5XGAP[105X function [2XComposedDocument[102X
  ([14X4.2-1[114X) which does this.[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YNote  that  the  XML-tag-like  markup  we  have used here is not a legal XML
  markup,  since  the  hash  character  is  not  allowed in element names. The
  mechanism described here is a preprocessing step which composes a document.[133X
  
  
  [1X4.2 [33X[0;0YA Tool for Collecting a Document[133X[101X
  
  [1X4.2-1 ComposedDocument[101X
  
  [29X[2XComposedDocument[102X( [3Xtagname[103X, [3Xpath[103X, [3Xmain[103X, [3Xsource[103X[, [3Xinfo[103X] ) [32X function
  [29X[2XComposedXMLString[102X( [3Xpath[103X, [3Xmain[103X, [3Xsource[103X[, [3Xinfo[103X] ) [32X function
  [6XReturns:[106X  [33X[0;10Ya  document  as string, or a list with this string and information
            about the source positions[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YThe  argument  [3Xtagname[103X is the string used for the pseudo elements which mark
  the  pieces of a document to collect. (In [14X4.1[114X we used [10XGAPDoc[110X as [3Xtagname[103X. The
  second   function   [2XComposedXMLString[102X[10X(   ...   )[110X   is  an  abbreviation  for
  [2XComposedDocument[102X[10X("GAPDoc", ... )[110X.[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YThe  argument  [3Xpath[103X must be a path to some directory (as string or directory
  object), [3Xmain[103X the name of a file in this directory and [3Xsource[103X a list of file
  names,  all  of  these relative to [3Xpath[103X. The document is constructed via the
  mechanism described in Section [14X4.1[114X.[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YFirst  the  files  given  in  [3Xsource[103X  are scanned for chunks of the document
  marked  by  [10X<#[3Xtagname[103X[10X Label="...">[110X and [10X</#[3Xtagname[103X[10X>[110X pairs. Then the file [3Xmain[103X
  is  read  and  all [10X<#Include ... >[110X-tags are substituted recursively by other
  files  or  chunks of documentation found in the first step, respectively. If
  the  optional argument [3Xinfo[103X is given and set to [9Xtrue[109X this function returns a
  list  [10X[str,  origin][110X, where [10Xstr[110X is a string containing the composed document
  and  [10Xorigin[110X  is  a sorted list of entries of the form [10X[pos, filename, line][110X.
  Here  [10Xpos[110X  runs  through  all  character positions of starting lines or text
  pieces  from  different  files  in  [10Xstr[110X.  The [10Xfilename[110X and [10Xline[110X describe the
  origin  of  this part of the collected document. Without the fourth argument
  only the string [10Xstr[110X is returned.[133X
  
  [4X[32X  Example  [32X[104X
    [4X[25Xgap>[125X [27Xdoc := ComposedDocument("GAPDoc", "/my/dir", "manual.xml", [127X[104X
    [4X[25X>[125X [27X["../lib/func.gd", "../lib/func.gi"], true);;[127X[104X
  [4X[32X[104X
  
  [1X4.2-2 OriginalPositionDocument[101X
  
  [29X[2XOriginalPositionDocument[102X( [3Xsrcinfo[103X, [3Xpos[103X ) [32X function
  [6XReturns:[106X  [33X[0;10YA pair [10X[filename, linenumber][110X.[133X
  
  [33X[0;0YHere  [3Xsrcinfo[103X  must  be  a  data  structure  as  returned as second entry by
  [2XComposedDocument[102X  ([14X4.2-1[114X)  called  with  [3Xinfo[103X=[9Xtrue[109X.  It  returns for a given
  position  [3Xpos[103X  in  the  composed document the file name and line number from
  which that text was collected.[133X
  
