nixpkgs docs: Reformat

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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-generators">
<title>Generators</title>
<title>Generators</title>
<para>
Generators are functions that create file formats from nix data structures,
e.g. for configuration files. There are generators available for:
<literal>INI</literal>, <literal>JSON</literal> and <literal>YAML</literal>
</para>
<para>
Generators are functions that create file formats from nix data structures,
e.g. for configuration files. There are generators available for:
<literal>INI</literal>, <literal>JSON</literal> and <literal>YAML</literal>
</para>
<para>
All generators follow a similar call interface: <code>generatorName
configFunctions data</code>, where <literal>configFunctions</literal> is an
attrset of user-defined functions that format nested parts of the content.
They each have common defaults, so often they do not need to be set
manually. An example is <code>mkSectionName ? (name: libStr.escape [ "[" "]"
] name)</code> from the <literal>INI</literal> generator. It receives the
name of a section and sanitizes it. The default
<literal>mkSectionName</literal> escapes <literal>[</literal> and
<literal>]</literal> with a backslash.
</para>
<para>
All generators follow a similar call interface: <code>generatorName
configFunctions data</code>, where <literal>configFunctions</literal> is an
attrset of user-defined functions that format nested parts of the content.
They each have common defaults, so often they do not need to be set manually.
An example is <code>mkSectionName ? (name: libStr.escape [ "[" "]" ]
name)</code> from the <literal>INI</literal> generator. It receives the name
of a section and sanitizes it. The default <literal>mkSectionName</literal>
escapes <literal>[</literal> and <literal>]</literal> with a backslash.
</para>
<para>
Generators can be fine-tuned to produce exactly the file format required by
your application/service. One example is an INI-file format which uses
<literal>: </literal> as separator, the strings
<literal>"yes"</literal>/<literal>"no"</literal> as boolean values and
requires all string values to be quoted:
</para>
<para>
Generators can be fine-tuned to produce exactly the file format required by
your application/service. One example is an INI-file format which uses
<literal>: </literal> as separator, the strings
<literal>"yes"</literal>/<literal>"no"</literal> as boolean values and
requires all string values to be quoted:
</para>
<programlisting>
with lib;
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}
</programlisting>
<para>
This will produce the following INI file as nix string:
</para>
<para>
This will produce the following INI file as nix string:
</para>
<programlisting>
[main]
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merge:"diff3"
</programlisting>
<note>
<para>
Nix store paths can be converted to strings by enclosing a derivation
attribute like so: <code>"${drv}"</code>.
</para>
</note>
<note>
<para>
Detailed documentation for each generator can be found in
<literal>lib/generators.nix</literal>.
Nix store paths can be converted to strings by enclosing a derivation
attribute like so: <code>"${drv}"</code>.
</para>
</section>
</note>
<para>
Detailed documentation for each generator can be found in
<literal>lib/generators.nix</literal>.
</para>
</section>