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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE boostbook PUBLIC "-//Boost//DTD BoostBook XML V1.0//EN"
3  "http://www.boost.org/tools/boostbook/dtd/boostbook.dtd">
4<!-- Copyright (C) 2002 Douglas Gregor
5
6    Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
7    (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
8    http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) -->
9<boostbook xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
10           last-revision="$Date: 2006/11/03 19:57:40 $">
11  <title>The Boost C++ Libraries BoostBook Documentation Subset</title>
12
13  <preface id="about">
14    <title>What's Included in This Document</title>
15
16    <para>This document represents only a subset of the full Boost
17    documentation: that part which is generated from BoostBook or
18    QuickBook sources.  Eventually all Boost libraries may use these
19    formats, but in the meantime, much of Boost's documentation is not
20    available here.  Please
21    see <ulink
22    url="http://www.boost.org/libs">http://www.boost.org/libs</ulink>
23    for complete documentation.
24    </para>
25
26    <para>
27      Documentation for some of the libraries described in this document is
28      available in alternative formats:
29       <itemizedlist>
30         <listitem>
31           <simpara><ulink url="http://www.boost.org/doc/boost-doc-html.tar.gz">HTML (tarred, gzipped)</ulink></simpara>
32         </listitem>
33         <listitem>
34           <simpara><ulink url="http://www.boost.org/doc/boost.pdf">PDF</ulink></simpara>
35         </listitem>
36         <listitem>
37           <simpara>
38             <ulink url="http://www.boost.org/doc/boost-doc-man.tar.gz">Unix man pages</ulink>
39           </simpara>
40         </listitem>
41         <listitem>
42           <simpara><ulink url="../boost.docbook">DocBook</ulink></simpara>
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44         <listitem>
45           <simpara>
46             <ulink url="../boost.fo">XSL Formatting Objects</ulink>
47           </simpara>
48         </listitem>
49       </itemizedlist>
50    </para>
51
52  </preface>
53
54  <part id="libraries">
55    <title>The Boost C++ Libraries (BoostBook Subset)</title>
56
57    <xi:include href="../../libs/any/doc/any.xml"/>
58    <xi:include href="../../libs/array/doc/array.xml"/>
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92         <surname>Hinnant</surname>
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107         <surname>Maurer</surname>
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162         <surname>Maddock</surname>
163       </author>
164       <author>
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166         <surname>Dawes</surname>
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199         <surname>Walker</surname>
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202       <librarypurpose>Cyclic Redundancy Code</librarypurpose>
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213         <surname>Siek</surname>
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216         <firstname>Chuck</firstname>
217         <surname>Allison</surname>
218       </author>
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242         <surname>Dawes</surname>
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245       <librarypurpose>Portable paths, iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations</librarypurpose>
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250   <xi:include href="foreach.xml"/>
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252   <xi:include href="../../libs/function/doc/function.xml"/>
253
254   <library name="Functional" dirname="functional" html-only="1">
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256       <author>
257         <firstname>Mark</firstname>
258         <surname>Rodgers</surname>
259       </author>
260       <librarypurpose>Enhanced function object adaptors</librarypurpose>
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269       <author>
270         <firstname>Jeremy</firstname>
271         <surname>Siek</surname>
272       </author>
273       <author>
274         <firstname>University of Notre Dame</firstname>
275         <surname>Team</surname>
276       </author>
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279       <librarycategory name="category:iterators"/>
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288         <firstname>various</firstname>
289         <surname>authors</surname>
290       </author>
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292       <librarypurpose>Headers to ease dealing with integral types</librarypurpose>
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302         <surname>Melquiond</surname>
303       </author>
304       <author>
305         <firstname>Herv&eacute;</firstname>
306         <surname>Br&ouml;nnimann</surname>
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310         <surname>Pion</surname>
311       </author>
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313       <librarypurpose>Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals</librarypurpose>
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318   <library name="I/O State Savers" dirname="io" html-only="1">
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320       <author>
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322         <surname>Walker</surname>
323       </author>
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325       <librarypurpose>Save I/O state to prevent jumbled data</librarypurpose>
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355       <author>
356         <firstname>various</firstname>
357         <surname>authors</surname>
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371         <firstname>Daryle</firstname>
372         <surname>Walker</surname>
373       </author>
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375       <librarypurpose>Greatest common divisor and least common multiple</librarypurpose>
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384         <surname>Holin</surname>
385       </author>
386
387       <librarypurpose>Octonions</librarypurpose>
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395         <firstname>Hubert</firstname>
396         <surname>Holin</surname>
397       </author>
398
399       <librarypurpose>Quaternions</librarypurpose>
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407         <firstname>Hubert</firstname>
408         <surname>Holin</surname>
409       </author>
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411       <librarypurpose>Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc</librarypurpose>
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415
416   <library name="MPL" dirname="mpl" html-only="1">
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419         <firstname>Aleksey</firstname>
420         <surname>Gurtovoy</surname>
421       </author>
422
423       <librarypurpose>Template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes</librarypurpose>
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430       <author>
431         <firstname>Ron</firstname>
432         <surname>Garcia</surname>
433       </author>
434
435       <librarypurpose>Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data</librarypurpose>
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437       <librarycategory name="category:containers"/>
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440
441   <library name="Operators" dirname="utility" html-only="1">
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443       <author>
444         <firstname>Dave</firstname>
445         <surname>Abrahams</surname>
446       </author>
447       <author>
448         <firstname>Jeremy</firstname>
449         <surname>Siek</surname>
450       </author>
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452       <librarypurpose>Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators</librarypurpose>
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454       <librarycategory name="category:iterators"/>
455       <librarycategory name="category:math"/>
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458
459   <library name="Optional" dirname="optional" html-only="1">
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462         <firstname>Fernando</firstname>
463         <surname>Cacciola</surname>
464       </author>
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476         <surname>Cleary</surname>
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478
479       <librarypurpose>Memory pool management</librarypurpose>
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487         <firstname>Vesa</firstname>
488         <surname>Karvonen</surname>
489       </author>
490       <author>
491         <firstname>Paul</firstname>
492         <surname>Mensonides</surname>
493       </author>
494
495       <librarypurpose>Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion</librarypurpose>
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502   <library name="Property Map" dirname="property_map" html-only="1">
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505         <firstname>Jeremy</firstname>
506         <surname>Siek</surname>
507       </author>
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510       <librarycategory name="category:generic"/>
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515     <libraryinfo>
516       <author>
517         <firstname>Dave</firstname>
518         <surname>Abrahams</surname>
519       </author>
520       <librarypurpose>Reflects C++ classes and functions into <ulink url="http://www.python.org">Python</ulink></librarypurpose>
521       <librarycategory name="category:lang"/>
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524
525   <library name="Random" dirname="random" html-only="1">
526     <libraryinfo>
527       <author>
528         <firstname>Jens</firstname>
529         <surname>Maurer</surname>
530       </author>
531       <librarypurpose>A complete system for random number generation</librarypurpose>
532       <librarycategory name="category:math"/>
533     </libraryinfo>
534   </library>
535
536   <library name="Rational" dirname="rational" html-only="1">
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538       <author>
539         <firstname>Paul</firstname>
540         <surname>Moore</surname>
541       </author>
542       <librarypurpose>A rational number class</librarypurpose>
543       <librarycategory name="category:math"/>
544     </libraryinfo>
545   </library>
546
547   <xi:include href="../../libs/bind/doc/ref.xml"/>
548
549   <library name="Regex" dirname="regex" html-only="1"
550            url="../../libs/regex/index.html">
551     <libraryinfo>
552       <author>
553         <firstname>John</firstname>
554         <surname>Maddock</surname>
555       </author>
556       <librarypurpose>Regular expression library</librarypurpose>
557       <librarycategory name="category:string-text"/>
558     </libraryinfo>
559   </library>
560
561   <library name="Serialization" dirname="serialization" html-only="1"
562            url="../../libs/serialization/index.html">
563     <libraryinfo>
564       <author>
565         <firstname>Robert</firstname>
566         <surname>Ramey</surname>
567       </author>
568       <librarypurpose>Serialization of C++ objects for persistence and marshalling</librarypurpose>
569       <librarycategory name="category:io"/>
570     </libraryinfo>
571   </library>
572
573   <xi:include href="../../libs/signals/doc/signals.xml"/>
574
575   <library name="Smart Pointer" dirname="smart_ptr" html-only="1"
576            url="../../libs/smart_ptr/index.html">
577     <libraryinfo>
578       <author>
579         <firstname>Greg</firstname>
580         <surname>Colvin</surname>
581       </author>
582       <author>
583         <firstname>Beman</firstname>
584         <surname>Dawes</surname>
585       </author>
586       <author>
587         <firstname>Peter</firstname>
588         <surname>Dimov</surname>
589       </author>
590       <author>
591         <firstname>Darin</firstname>
592         <surname>Adler</surname>
593       </author>
594       <librarypurpose>Five smart pointer class templates</librarypurpose>
595       <librarycategory name="category:memory"/>
596     </libraryinfo>
597   </library> 
598
599   <library name="Spirit" dirname="spirit" html-only="1">
600     <libraryinfo>
601       <author>
602         <firstname>Joel</firstname>
603         <surname>de Guzman</surname>
604       </author>
605       <author>
606         <firstname>team</firstname>
607       </author>
608
609       <librarypurpose>LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++</librarypurpose>
610       <librarycategory name="category:text"/>
611       <librarycategory name="category:parsing"/>
612     </libraryinfo>
613   </library>
614
615   <xi:include href="static_assert.xml"/>
616
617   <xi:include href="../../libs/algorithm/string/doc/string_algo.xml"/>
618
619   <library name="Test" dirname="test" html-only="1">
620     <libraryinfo>
621       <author>
622         <firstname>Gennadiy</firstname>
623         <surname>Rozental</surname>
624       </author>
625       <librarypurpose>Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring</librarypurpose>
626       <librarycategory name="category:testing"/>
627     </libraryinfo>
628   </library>
629   
630   <xi:include href="../../libs/thread/doc/thread.xml"/>
631
632   <library name="Timer" dirname="timer" html-only="1" 
633            url="../../libs/timer/index.html">
634     <libraryinfo>
635       <author>
636         <firstname>Beman</firstname>
637         <surname>Dawes</surname>
638       </author>
639       <librarypurpose>Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes</librarypurpose>
640       <librarycategory name="category:misc"/>
641     </libraryinfo>
642   </library>
643
644   <library name="Tokenizer" dirname="tokenizer" html-only="1"
645            url="../../libs/tokenizer/index.html">
646     <libraryinfo>
647       <author>
648         <firstname>John</firstname>
649         <surname>Bandela</surname>
650       </author>
651       <librarypurpose>Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens</librarypurpose>
652       <librarycategory name="category:string-text"/>
653       <librarycategory name="category:iterators"/>
654     </libraryinfo>
655   </library>
656
657   <xi:include href="tr1.xml"/>
658   <xi:include href="../../libs/logic/doc/tribool.boostbook"/>
659
660   <library name="Tuple" dirname="tuple" html-only="1">
661     <libraryinfo>
662       <author>
663         <firstname>Jaakko</firstname>
664         <surname>J&auml;rvi</surname>
665       </author>
666       <librarypurpose>Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more</librarypurpose>
667       <librarycategory name="category:data-structures"/>
668     </libraryinfo>
669   </library>
670
671   <xi:include href="type_traits.xml"/>
672 
673   <xi:include href="typeof.xml"/>
674
675   <library name="uBLAS" dirname="numeric/ublas" html-only="1">
676     <libraryinfo>
677       <author>
678         <firstname>Joerg</firstname>
679         <surname>Walter</surname>
680       </author>
681       <author>
682         <firstname>Mathias</firstname>
683         <surname>Koch</surname>
684       </author>
685       <librarypurpose>Basic linear algebra for dense, packed and sparse matrices</librarypurpose>
686       <librarycategory name="category:math"/>
687     </libraryinfo>
688   </library>
689
690   <library name="Utility" dirname="utility" html-only="1">
691     <libraryinfo>
692       <author>
693         <firstname>Dave</firstname>
694         <surname>Abrahams</surname>
695       </author>
696       <author>
697         <firstname>others</firstname>
698       </author>
699
700       <librarypurpose>Class noncopyable  plus <functionname>checked_delete</functionname>, <functionname>checked_array_delete</functionname>, <functionname>next</functionname><functionname>prior</functionname>  function templates, plus base-from-member idiom</librarypurpose>
701       <librarycategory name="category:misc"/>
702       <librarycategory name="category:memory"/>
703       <librarycategory name="category:algorithms"/>
704     </libraryinfo>
705   </library>
706   <xi:include href="../../libs/variant/doc/variant.xml"/>
707
708   <xi:include href="xpressive.xml"/>
709
710  </part>
711
712  <part id="tools">
713    <title>Boost Tools</title>
714    <para>
715      Boost developers, testers, and maintainers have developed various programs to
716      help with the administration of the Boost Libraries. Like everything else about
717      Boost, these tools are available in source form, and are part of the regular
718      Boost distribution.
719    </para>
720    <para>
721      Users may find these tools useful when porting Boost libraries to a new platform,
722      or for use with their own applications.
723    </para>
724
725    <xi:include href="../../tools/boostbook/doc/boostbook.xml"/>
726    <xi:include href="quickbook.xml"/>
727    <xi:include href="bjam.xml"/>
728    <xi:include href="../../tools/build/v2/doc/src/userman.xml"/>
729  </part>
730 
731  <xi:include href="using.xml"/>
732</boostbook>
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