</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>A few words about XML</title>
- <para>An XML file resembles to a HTML file but with a more rigid syntax.
+ <para>A XML file is similar to a HTML file but with a more rigid syntax.
The documentation of Scilab must be written using the strict subset of
DocBook 5 defined in SCI/modules/helptools/schema/scilab.rnc. DocBook 5
elements are fully documented in <ulink url="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/docbook.html">"DocBook 5.0: The Definitive Guide"</ulink>
<term>default_language</term>
<listitem>
<para>vector of strings: default languages associated to directory
- paths or []. If an XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
+ paths or []. If a XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
copied from the default_language.
</para>
</listitem>
<term>default_language</term>
<listitem>
<para>vector of strings: default languages associated to directory
- paths or []. If an XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
+ paths or []. If a XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
copied from the default_language.
</para>
</listitem>
<term>default_language</term>
<listitem>
<para>vector of strings: default languages associated to directory
- paths or []. If an XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
+ paths or []. If a XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
copied from the default_language.
</para>
</listitem>
<term>default_language</term>
<listitem>
<para>vector of strings: default languages associated to directory
- paths or []. If an XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
+ paths or []. If a XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
copied from the default_language.
</para>
</listitem>
<term>default_language</term>
<listitem>
<para>vector of strings: default languages associated to directory
- paths or []. If an XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
+ paths or []. If a XML file is missing in the dir_language, it's
copied from the default_language.
</para>
</listitem>
<refsection id="Description_lincos">
<title>Description</title>
<para>
- Construct a linear state-space system by linearizing a model given as an xcos diagram. The idea is to transform a <link linkend="SUPER_f">sub-diagram</link> to a linear state-space model. The sub-diagram should have <link linkend="IN_f">inputs</link> and <link linkend="OUT_f">outputs</link>.
+ Construct a linear state-space system by linearizing a model given as a Xcos diagram. The idea is to transform a <link linkend="SUPER_f">sub-diagram</link> to a linear state-space model. The sub-diagram should have <link linkend="IN_f">inputs</link> and <link linkend="OUT_f">outputs</link>.
</para>
<para>
The output is a Scilab data structure of type continuous-time state-space linear system.
<link linkend="xcos">xcos: Block diagram editor and GUI for the hybrid simulator</link>
</member>
<member>
- <link linkend="steadycos">steadycos: Finds an equilibrium state of an xcos diagram</link>
+ <link linkend="steadycos">steadycos: Finds an equilibrium state of a Xcos diagram</link>
</member>
<member>
- <link linkend="lincos">lincos: Constructs by linearization a linear state-space model from an xcos diagram</link>
+ <link linkend="lincos">lincos: Constructs by linearization a linear state-space model from a Xcos diagram</link>
</member>
</simplelist>
</refsection>
<title>Arguments</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>block1</term>: An Xcos block.
+ <term>block1</term>: A Xcos block.
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>block2</term>: An Xcos block.
+ <term>block2</term>: A Xcos block.
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<link linkend="xcos">xcos: Block diagram editor and GUI for the hybrid simulator</link>
</member>
<member>
- <link linkend="steadycos">steadycos: Finds an equilibrium state of an xcos diagram</link>
+ <link linkend="steadycos">steadycos: Finds an equilibrium state of a Xcos diagram</link>
</member>
<member>
- <link linkend="lincos">lincos: Constructs by linearization a linear state-space model from an xcos diagram</link>
+ <link linkend="lincos">lincos: Constructs by linearization a linear state-space model from a Xcos diagram</link>
</member>
</simplelist>
</refsection>
<refnamediv>
<refname>block_parameter_error</refname>
<refpurpose>
- Displays a parameter input error box for an Xcos block
+ Displays a parameter input error box for a Xcos block
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
- This Scilab function is used to get the position (<varname>x</varname>,<varname>y</varname>) of each input port of an Xcos block.
+ This Scilab function is used to get the position (<varname>x</varname>,<varname>y</varname>) of each input port of a Xcos block.
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
- This Scilab function is used to get the origin position (<varname>x</varname>,<varname>y</varname>) of an Xcos block.
+ This Scilab function is used to get the origin position (<varname>x</varname>,<varname>y</varname>) of a Xcos block.
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
- This Scilab function is used to get the position (<varname>x</varname>,<varname>y</varname>) of each output port of an Xcos block.
+ This Scilab function is used to get the position (<varname>x</varname>,<varname>y</varname>) of each output port of a Xcos block.
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
</inlinemediaobject>
</para>
<para>
- Select the <emphasis>Open</emphasis> menu item to load an XML (<emphasis>.xcos</emphasis>) or a binary file
+ Select the <emphasis>Open</emphasis> menu item to load a XML (<emphasis>.xcos</emphasis>) or a binary file
(<emphasis>.cos</emphasis>) which contain saved block diagram or a palette. The command open a dialog box allows
you to choose the folder and the file.
</para>
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:scilab="http://www.scilab.org" xml:id="xmlIsValidObject" xml:lang="en">
<refnamediv>
<refname>xmlIsValidObject</refname>
- <refpurpose>Test the existence of an XML object</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Test the existence of a XML object</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<title>Calling Sequence</title>
// Retrieve the names of an attributes list
xmlName(doc.root.children(1).attributes)
-// Retrieve the names of the result of an XPath query
+// Retrieve the names of the result of a XPath query
xmlName(xmlXPath(doc,"//foo/@*"))
xmlDelete(doc);
<varlistentry>
<term>elems</term>
<listitem>
- <para>elems, an XMLElem or a XMLSet (result of XPath query) or a XMLlist (a children list)</para>
+ <para>elems, a XMLElem or a XMLSet (result of XPath query) or a XMLlist (a children list)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:scilab="http://www.scilab.org" xml:id="xmlXPath" xml:lang="en">
<refnamediv>
<refname>xmlXPath</refname>
- <refpurpose>Make an XPath query on a XML document</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Make a XPath query on a XML document</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<title>Calling Sequence</title>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
- <para>Make an XPath query on a document or in starting on an element. If you need to use namespaces, then you must define them in using the optional argument. XML namespaces are defined in the first tag with the keyword "xmlns".</para>
+ <para>Make a XPath query on a document or in starting on an element. If you need to use namespaces, then you must define them in using the optional argument. XML namespaces are defined in the first tag with the keyword "xmlns".</para>
<para>
For more information about XPath, you can read the <ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116/">W3C recommandation</ulink>.
</para>