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| author | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2020-04-04 23:31:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2020-04-05 00:06:32 +0200 |
| commit | 72464041771de52ca6b3f8bc79aea84c23af30b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d8a309a0be0e1563542e4d16d02564440d3837a /manual | |
| parent | 67d5ed3a64a81f9192c17dc71f02e69f60f8a1f8 (diff) | |
| download | qpdf-72464041771de52ca6b3f8bc79aea84c23af30b6.tar.zst | |
JSON: implement pattern keys in schema
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/qpdf-manual.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml index 83cb6bf9..a2dff114 100644 --- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml +++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml @@ -3082,11 +3082,18 @@ outfile.pdf</option> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> - A dictionary in the help output means that the corresponding - location in the actual JSON output is also a dictionary with - exactly the same keys; that is, no keys present in help are - absent in the real output, and no keys will be present in - the real output that are not in help. + A dictionary in the help output means that the + corresponding location in the actual JSON output is also a + dictionary with exactly the same keys; that is, no keys + present in help are absent in the real output, and no keys + will be present in the real output that are not in help. As + a special case, if the dictionary has a single key whose + name starts with <literal><</literal> and ends with + <literal>></literal>, it means that the JSON output is a + dictionary that can have any keys, each of which conforms + to the value of the special key. This is used for cases in + which the keys of the dictionary are things like object + IDs. </para> </listitem> <listitem> |