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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+ xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
+ xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="5.0" xml:id="mark.optional.procedure.steps">
+<refmeta>
+<refentrytitle>mark.optional.procedure.steps</refentrytitle>
+<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+<refnamediv>
+<refname>mark.optional.procedure.steps</refname>
+<refpurpose>Specifies whether to mark optional procedure steps</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <src:fragment xml:id="mark.optional.procedure.steps.frag">
+ <xsl:param name="mark.optional.procedure.steps">1</xsl:param>
+ </src:fragment>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
+
+<para>This parameter specifies whether a procedure step
+with attribute <tag>performance</tag> set to <literal>optional</literal>
+should be marked. If set to 1 (the default value), then the
+text "(Optional)" appears at the start of the first paragraph.
+If set to zero, then no text is generated.</para>
+
+<para>The text can be customized in the gentext element with
+key="optional-step".</para>
+
+</refsection>
+</refentry>