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author | Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-11-22 18:08:25 +0000 |
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committer | Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-11-22 18:08:25 +0000 |
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diff --git a/mandoc_html.3 b/mandoc_html.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..994eb3a288e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/mandoc_html.3 @@ -0,0 +1,249 @@ +.\" $Id: mandoc_html.3,v 1.1 2014/07/23 18:13:09 schwarze Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 23 2014 $ +.Dt MANDOC_HTML 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mandoc_html +.Nd internals of the mandoc HTML formatter +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In "html.h" +.Ft void +.Fn print_gen_decls "struct html *h" +.Ft void +.Fn print_gen_head "struct html *h" +.Ft struct tag * +.Fo print_otag +.Fa "struct html *h" +.Fa "enum htmltag tag" +.Fa "int sz" +.Fa "const struct htmlpair *p" +.Fc +.Ft void +.Fo print_tagq +.Fa "struct html *h" +.Fa "const struct tag *until" +.Fc +.Ft void +.Fo print_stagq +.Fa "struct html *h" +.Fa "const struct tag *suntil" +.Fc +.Ft void +.Fo print_text +.Fa "struct html *h" +.Fa "const char *word" +.Fc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The mandoc HTML formatter is not a formal library. +However, as it is compiled into more than one program, in particular +.Xr mandoc 1 +and +.Xr man.cgi 8 , +and because it may be security-critical in some contexts, +some documentation is useful to help to use it correctly and +to prevent XSS vulnerabilities. +.Pp +The formatter produces HTML output on the standard output. +Since proper escaping is usually required and best taken care of +at one central place, the language-specific formatters +.Po +.Pa *_html.c , +see +.Sx FILES +.Pc +are not supposed to print directly to +.Dv stdout +using functions like +.Xr printf 3 , +.Xr putc 3 , +.Xr puts 3 , +or +.Xr write 2 . +Instead, they are expected to use the output functions declared in +.Pa html.h +and implemented as part of the main HTML formatting engine in +.Pa html.c . +.Ss Data structures +These structures are declared in +.Pa html.h . +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Vt struct html +Internal state of the HTML formatter. +.It Vt struct htmlpair +Holds one HTML attribute. +Members are +.Fa "enum htmlattr key" +and +.Fa "const char *val" . +Helper macros +.Fn PAIR_* +are provided to support initialization of such structures. +.It Vt struct tag +One entry for the LIFO stack of HTML elements. +Members are +.Fa "enum htmltag tag" +and +.Fa "struct tag *next" . +.El +.Ss Private interface functions +The function +.Fn print_gen_decls +prints the opening +.Ao Pf \&? Ic xml ? Ac +and +.Aq Pf \&! Ic DOCTYPE +declarations required for the current document type. +.Pp +The function +.Fn print_gen_head +prints the opening +.Aq Ic META +and +.Aq Ic LINK +elements for the document +.Aq Ic HEAD , +using the +.Fa style +member of +.Fa h +unless that is +.Dv NULL . +It uses +.Fn print_otag +which takes care of properly encoding attributes, +which is relevant for the +.Fa style +link in particular. +.Pp +The function +.Fn print_otag +prints the start tag of an HTML element with the name +.Fa tag , +including the +.Fa sz +attributes that can optionally be provided in the +.Fa p +array. +It uses the private function +.Fn print_attr +which in turn uses the private function +.Fn print_encode +to take care of HTML encoding. +If required by the element type, it remembers in +.Fa h +that the element is open. +The function +.Fn print_tagq +is used to close out all open elements up to and including +.Fa until ; +.Fn print_stagq +is a variant to close out all open elements up to but excluding +.Fa suntil . +.Pp +The function +.Fn print_text +prints HTML element content. +It uses the private function +.Fn print_encode +to take care of HTML encoding. +If the document has requested a non-standard font, for example using a +.Xr roff 7 +.Ic \ef +font escape sequence, +.Fn print_text +wraps +.Fa word +in an HTML font selection element using the +.Fn print_otag +and +.Fn print_tagq +functions. +.Pp +The functions +.Fn bufinit , +.Fn bufcat* , +and +.Fn buffmt* +do not directly produce output but buffer text in the +.Fa buf +member of +.Fa h . +They are not used internally by +.Pa html.c +but intended for use by the language-specific formatters +to ease preparation of strings for the +.Fa p +argument of +.Fn print_otag +and for the +.Fa word +argument of +.Fn print_text . +Consequently, these functions do not do any HTML encoding. +.Pp +The functions +.Fn html_strlen , +.Fn print_eqn , +.Fn print_tbl , +and +.Fn print_tblclose +are not yet documented. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width mandoc_aux.c -compact +.It Pa main.h +declarations of public functions for use by the main program, +not yet documented +.It Pa html.h +declarations of data types and private functions +for use by language-specific HTML formatters +.It Pa html.c +main HTML formatting engine and utility functions +.It Pa mdoc_html.c +.Xr mdoc 7 +HTML formatter +.It Pa man_html.c +.Xr man 7 +HTML formatter +.It Pa tbl_html.c +.Xr tbl 7 +HTML formatter +.It Pa eqn_html.c +.Xr eqn 7 +HTML formatter +.It Pa out.h +declarations of data types and private functions +for shared use by all mandoc formatters, +not yet documented +.It Pa out.c +private functions for shared use by all mandoc formatters +.It Pa mandoc_aux.h +declarations of common mandoc utility functions, see +.Xr mandoc 3 +.It Pa mandoc_aux.c +implementation of common mandoc utility functions +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mandoc 1 , +.Xr mandoc 3 , +.Xr man.cgi 8 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The mandoc HTML formatter was written by +.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv . +This manual was written by +.An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org . |