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# DOCUMENTATION HOW-TO
**HTML Tidy** provides several types of documentation to suit different purposes. This
document describes how to generate the following:
`htmldoc/api/` (directory)
: This collection of documents describes the **TidyLib** API and is generated from the
comments and code in the **Tidy** source code.
`quickref.html`
: This document provides a nice, readable HTML document describing all of the options and
settings that you can use with **Tidy** and internally in **TidyLib**.
`tidy.1`
: This document is a Mac/Linux/Unix standard `man` page.
## htmldoc/api/ (directory)
If you want to build the API documentation locally you must have [doxygen][1] installed.
You can clone the [repository from github][2] if it is not currently installed.
Building as simple as:
- `cd {your-tidy-html5-source}/htmldoc/doxygen doxygen.cfg`
This will result in a document set in `{your-tidy-html5-source}/htmldoc/doxygen/api/`,
where you can find the main `index.html` file.
## quickref.html
For convenience you can use the `quickref.sh` shell script on Unix-like systems to
build the `quickref.html` file. Note that it depends on the standard `xsltproc` utility
to build the file.
If you are using a non-Unix operating system or have a different XSLT processor then the
following section describes how the file can be built easily.
`tidy -xml-config > "tidy-config.xml"`
: This uses your up-to-date version of **Tidy** to generate an XML file containing all
of **Tidy**s built-in settings and their descriptions. This file is only temporary,
as it will be transformed in the next step.
`xsltproc "quickref.xsl" "tidy-config.xml" > "quickref.html"`
: This examples uses the `xsltproc` command to transform `tidy-config.xml` using the
rules in the `quickref.xsl` stylesheet, and output it to `quickref.html`.
## tidy.1
For convenience you can use the `tidy1.sh` shell script on Unix-like systems to
build the `tidy.1` file. Note that it depends on the standard `xsltproc` utility
to build the file.
If you are using a non-Unix operating system or have a different XSLT processor then the
following section describes how the file can be built easily.
`tidy -xml-config > "tidy-config.xml"`
: This uses your up-to-date version of **Tidy** to generate an XML file containing all
of **Tidy**s built-in settings and their descriptions. This file is only temporary,
as it will be transformed in the third step.
`tidy -xml-help > "tidy-help.xml"`
: This uses your up-to-date version of **Tidy** to generate an XML file containing all
of **Tidy**s built-in help information. This file is only temporary,
as it will be transformed in the next step.
`xsltproc "tidy1.xsl" "tidy-help.xml" > "tidy.1"`
: This examples uses the `xsltproc` command to transform `tidy-help.xml` using the
rules in the `tidy1.xsl` stylesheet, and output it to `tidy.1`.
Note that `tidy1.xls` includes the file `tidy-config.xml` as part of the stylesheet,
and so although it does not appear in the command invocation, it is indeed required.
[1]: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
[2]: https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen