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-Master XSLT stylesheets for the INFO database authoring framework.
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-To update:
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-% cvs update
-% make
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-Documents that use the framework depend on the master stylsheets, and so will automatically rebuild from scratch the next time they are built.
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-Most of the real stylesheet code is in the modules directory.