Make the User's Guide DocBook XML 4.2 conformant again

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml b/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml
index 5f38b37..d82127d 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ $ ghci -lm
           <literal>:continue</literal> 
           <indexterm><primary><literal>:continue</literal></primary></indexterm>
         </term>
-       <listitem> Shortcut to <literal>:breakpoint continue </literal>
+       <listitem><para>Shortcut to <literal>:breakpoint continue</literal></para>
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ Local bindings in scope:
 qsort2.hs:2:15-46>   
 </programlisting>
       What is happening here is that GHCi has interrupted the evaluation of 
-      <code>qsort</code> at the breakpoint set in line 2, as the prompt indicates.
+      <literal>qsort</literal> at the breakpoint set in line 2, as the prompt indicates.
       At this point you can freely explore the contents of the bindings in scope,
       but with two catches. </para><para>
       First, take into account that due to the lazy nature of Haskell, some of
@@ -1631,9 +1631,9 @@ qsort2.hs:2:15-46>
       trigger a computation. </para><para>
       Second: look at the types of the things in scope.
       GHCi has left its types parameterised by a variable!
-      Look at the type of <code>qsort</code>, which is 
+      Look at the type of <literal>qsort</literal>, which is 
       polymorphic on the type of its argument. It does not 
-      tell us really what the types of <code>x</code> and <code>xs</code> can be. 
+      tell us really what the types of <literal>x</literal> and <literal>xs</literal> can be. 
       In general, polymorphic programs deal with polymorphic values,
       and this means that some of the bindings available in a breakpoint site
       will be parametrically typed.
@@ -1644,11 +1644,11 @@ qsort2.hs:2:15-46>
       This is useful because you cannot just type <literal>x</literal> in the 
       prompt and expect GHCi to return you its value. Perhaps you know for 
       sure that 
-      <literal>x</literal> is of type <code>Int</code>, which is an instance of 
-      <code>Show</code>, but GHCi does not have this information. 
-      <code>:print</code> however is fine, because it does not need to know the 
+      <literal>x</literal> is of type <literal>Int</literal>, which is an instance of 
+      <literal>Show</literal>, but GHCi does not have this information. 
+      <literal>:print</literal> however is fine, because it does not need to know the 
       type to do its work. </para>
-      <para> Let's go on with the debugging session of the <code>qsort</code>
+      <para> Let's go on with the debugging session of the <literal>qsort</literal>
       example:
 <example id="debuggingEx"><title>A short debugging session</title>
 <programlisting>
@@ -1674,22 +1674,22 @@ x :: Int
          <para>GHCi reminds us that this value is untyped, and instructs us to force its evaluation </para>
        </callout>
        <callout arearefs="seq2">
-         <para>This line forces the evaluation of <code>x</code> </para>
+         <para>This line forces the evaluation of <literal>x</literal> </para>
        </callout>
        <callout arearefs="seq3">
          <para>Even though x has been evaluated, we cannot simply use its name to see its value! 
          This is a bit counterintuitive, but currently in GHCi the type of a binding
-         cannot be a type variable <code>a</code>. 
-         Thus, the binding <code>x</code> gets assigned the concrete type Unknown.</para>
+         cannot be a type variable <literal>a</literal>. 
+         Thus, the binding <literal>x</literal> gets assigned the concrete type Unknown.</para>
        </callout>
        <callout arearefs="seq4">
-         <para>We can explore <code>x</code> using the <literal>:print</literal> 
-         command, which does find out that <code>x</code> is of type Int and prints
+         <para>We can explore <literal>x</literal> using the <literal>:print</literal> 
+         command, which does find out that <literal>x</literal> is of type Int and prints
          its value accordingly.</para>
        </callout>
        <callout arearefs="seq5">
-          <literal>:print</literal> also updates the type of <code>x</code> with
-          the most concrete type information available.
+          <para><literal>:print</literal> also updates the type of <literal>x</literal> with
+          the most concrete type information available.</para>
        </callout>
       </calloutlist>
       The example shows the standard way to proceeed with polymorphic values in a breakpoint. 
@@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@ x :: Int
      <para>
       <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>
-         <xref linkend="implicit-parameters" xrefstyle="select: title"/> are only available 
+         Implicit parameters (see <xref linkend="implicit-parameters"/>) are only available 
          at the scope of a breakpoint if there is a explicit type signature.
        </para></listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
@@ -1804,13 +1804,13 @@ x :: Int
            <programlisting>{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fdebugging #-}</programlisting>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
-       <varlistentry> <term>* Repeated use of <code>seq</code> and 
+       <varlistentry> <term>* Repeated use of <literal>seq</literal> and 
            <literal>:print</literal> may be necessary to observe unevaluated
            untyped bindings</term> 
          <listitem><para>see <xref linkend="debuggingEx"/> 
          </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
-       <varlistentry> <term> * <code>GHC.Exts.unsafeCoerce</code> can help if you are positive about the type of a binding</term> 
+       <varlistentry> <term> * <literal>GHC.Exts.unsafeCoerce</literal> can help if you are positive about the type of a binding</term> 
          <listitem><para><programlisting>
 type MyLongType a = [Maybe [Maybe a]]
 
@@ -1828,8 +1828,8 @@ Main.hs:15> x'
        <varlistentry> <term> * The undocumented (and unsupported) &colon;force command </term>
          <listitem><para> 
              equivalent to <literal> :print</literal> with automatic 
-             <code>seq</code> forcing, 
-             may prove useful to replace sequences of <code>seq</code> and 
+             <literal>seq</literal> forcing, 
+             may prove useful to replace sequences of <literal>seq</literal> and 
              <literal>&colon;print</literal> in some situations. 
          </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry> 
@@ -1975,7 +1975,7 @@ Main.hs:15> x'
        <term>I can't use Control-C to interrupt computations in
           GHCi on Windows.</term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>See <xref linkend="ghci-windows">.</xref></para>
+          <para>See <xref linkend="ghci-windows"/></para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
index 8bca485..e680d6c 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
@@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@ that collection of packages in a uniform manner.  You can express
 quite a bit of object-oriented-like programming this way.
 </para>
 
-<sect4 id="existential">
+<sect3 id="existential">
 <title>Why existential?
 </title>
 
@@ -1249,9 +1249,9 @@ But Haskell programmers can safely think of the ordinary
 adding a new existential quantification construct.
 </para>
 
-</sect4>
+</sect3>
 
-<sect4>
+<sect3>
 <title>Type classes</title>
 
 <para>
@@ -1311,9 +1311,9 @@ Notice the way that the syntax fits smoothly with that used for
 universal quantification earlier.
 </para>
 
-</sect4>
+</sect3>
 
-<sect4 id="existential-records">
+<sect3 id="existential-records">
 <title>Record Constructors</title>
 
 <para>
@@ -1376,10 +1376,10 @@ setTag obj t = obj{ tag = t }
 
 </para>
 
-</sect4>
+</sect3>
 
 
-<sect4>
+<sect3>
 <title>Restrictions</title>
 
 <para>
@@ -1530,7 +1530,7 @@ declarations.  Define your own instances!
 
 </para>
 
-</sect4>
+</sect3>
 </sect2>
 
 <!-- ====================== Generalised algebraic data types =======================  -->
@@ -3492,7 +3492,6 @@ including an operational type class context, is legal:
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem> <para> On the left or right (see <literal>f4</literal>, for example)
 of a function arrow </para> </listitem>
-<listitem> <para> On the right of a function arrow (see <xref linkend="hoist"/>) </para> </listitem>
 <listitem> <para> As the argument of a constructor, or type of a field, in a data type declaration. For
 example, any of the <literal>f1,f2,f3,g1,g2</literal> above would be valid
 field type signatures.</para> </listitem>

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/using.xml b/docs/users_guide/using.xml
index f6afa3c..72f53b7 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/users_guide/using.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/using.xml
@@ -343,10 +343,11 @@ module X where
       <varlistentry>
        <term>
           <cmdsynopsis>
-          <command>ghc --version</command> <command>ghc -V</command> 
+            <command>ghc --version</command>
+            <command>ghc -V</command>
+          </cmdsynopsis>
           <indexterm><primary><option>-V</option></primary></indexterm>
           <indexterm><primary><option>&ndash;&ndash;version</option></primary></indexterm>
-           </cmdsynopsis>
         </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Print a one-line string including GHC's version number.</para>
@@ -356,9 +357,9 @@ module X where
       <varlistentry>
        <term>
           <cmdsynopsis>
-          <command>ghc --numeric-version</command>
+            <command>ghc --numeric-version</command>
+          </cmdsynopsis>
           <indexterm><primary><option>&ndash;&ndash;numeric-version</option></primary></indexterm>
-           </cmdsynopsis>
         </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Print GHC's numeric version number only.</para>
@@ -368,9 +369,9 @@ module X where
       <varlistentry>
        <term>
          <cmdsynopsis>
-          <command>ghc --print-libdir</command>
+            <command>ghc --print-libdir</command>
+          </cmdsynopsis>
           <indexterm><primary><option>&ndash;&ndash;print-libdir</option></primary></indexterm>
-           </cmdsynopsis>
         </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Print the path to GHC's library directory.  This is
@@ -630,8 +631,8 @@ ghc -c Foo.hs</screen>
     <indexterm><primary>help options</primary></indexterm>
     <indexterm><primary>verbosity options</primary></indexterm>
 
-    See also the <option>--help</option>, <option>--version</option>, <option>--numeric-version</option>,
-    and <option>--print-libdir</option> modes in <xref linkend="modes"/>.
+    <para>See also the <option>--help</option>, <option>--version</option>, <option>--numeric-version</option>,
+    and <option>--print-libdir</option> modes in <xref linkend="modes"/>.</para>
     <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
        <term>