Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide

<item>

List item: Identifies an item in a list.

Syntax

<list [id=id]>
 * List item
  * List item
 <\list> 

Or:

<list order>
   <item id=name1>List item
   <item id=name2>List item
   <item id=name3>List item
    .
    .
    .
 <\list> 

The shorthand form, which is an * (asterisk), is almost always used.

The long form allows you to cross-reference an item in a list. You can only cross-reference items in an ordered (numbered) list. The automatically assigned item numbers are used in the cross-reference text (which HelpTag substitutes for the <xref> element). Unlike a number, a bullet character is not a meaningful substitution for the cross-reference text.

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