UsageWriter (Starjava TTOOLS API)

java.lang.Object
- uk.ac.starlink.ttools.build.UsageWriter

```
public class UsageWriter
extends java.lang.Object
```
Write usage paragraphs specific to the STILTS tasks. This class is designed to be used from its main method.

Since:

17 Aug 2005

Author:

Mark Taylor

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`static void`	`main(java.lang.String[] args)`	Writes a file called taskname-summary.xml for each of the tasks in STILTS.
`static java.lang.String`	`xmlItem(uk.ac.starlink.task.Parameter<?> param, boolean isBasic)`	Returns a list item (dt/dd pair) for a parameter giving its usage and description.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Method Detail
  - xmlItem
```
public static java.lang.String xmlItem(uk.ac.starlink.task.Parameter<?> param,
                                       boolean isBasic)
```
    Returns a list item (dt/dd pair) for a parameter giving its usage and description.
    
    Parameters:
    
    param - parameter
    
    isBasic - if true, avoid adding XML constructs which won't be evident (and may cause parsing trouble) in plain text output
    
    Returns:
    
    XML snippet for param
  - main
```
public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)
                 throws java.io.IOException,
                        uk.ac.starlink.util.LoadException
```
    Writes a file called taskname-summary.xml for each of the tasks in STILTS. This contains a basic usage summary with some surrounding XML boilerplate.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException
    
    uk.ac.starlink.util.LoadException