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.Dd $Mdocdate$

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.Sh DESCRIPTION

The

.Nm

utility parses

utility parses mdoc formatted manual source and passes results into an

.Xr mdoc

output filter. The only current output filter is

formatted manual source and passes results into the output filter

dictated by

.Fl f Ar filter .

The only current output filter is

.Ar xml ,

the default. The arguments are as follows:

.Bl -tag -width "\-o outfile"

.It Fl f Ar filter

The output filter name, which defaults to

The output filter name.

.Ar xml .

.It Fl o Ar outfile

Place output in

Write output to

.Ar outfile ,

which may be

.Qq \-

for stdout. The default is stdout.

for stdout.

.It Fl W

Print compiler warnings to stderr.

Print warnings to stderr.

.It Ar infile

Read input from

.Ar infile ,

which may be

.Qq \-

for stdin. The default is stdin.

for stdin.

.El

.Pp

By default,

.Nm

reads from stdin and writes to stdout using the xml filter.

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.Ss XML Filter

The XML filter, specified by

.Fl f Ar xml ,

Line 55 is the default filter. It creates an XML document whe

Line 51 is the default filter. It creates an XML document whe

their respective roff macro names. Each element name has an associated

namespace, which is one of

.Qq block ,

.Qq inline ,

.Qq head ,

.Qq body ,

.Qq special ,

.Qq inline ,

corresponding to the display mode of a node.

corresponding to the display mode of a node. The document root is

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always the

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.Qq mdoc

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element, in the default namespace.

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.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr groff 1 ,

.Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,

Line 91 or the necessary limitations of converting an ad hoc l

Line 83 or the necessary limitations of converting an ad hoc l

structured ones:

.Bl -enum -compact -offset indent

.It

The engine doesn't understand

The engine doesn't understand the

.Sq \&Xo

.Sq \&Xo ,

.Sq \&Xc ,

.Sq \&No ,

.Sq \&Db ,

.Sq \&Xc ,

and

.Sq \&Xc

.Sq \&Xo

troff macros.

mdoc macros.

.It

All macro arguments may be quoted, instead of only some.

.It

Blank lines raise warnings.

Blank lines raise errors.

.It

If terminating punctuation is found, then

.Em all

remaining tokens are flushed after line scope is closed, not just the

last one.

.El

.Pp

The roff engine in

.Nm

produces text in-line; thus, output may already be partially written by

the time an error is encountered.

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