--- doc/homework/Attic/lonxml_doc	2000/10/02 21:18:20	1.1
+++ doc/homework/Attic/lonxml_doc	2000/10/05 19:42:35	1.2
@@ -16,3 +16,15 @@ $Apache::lonxml::curdepth will be a stri
 
 It gets set by callsub and is available for use in the Perl tag
 implementations.
+
+3) newparser(parser stack, string ref, directory string)
+
+pass it refereence to an array and a reference to a string scaler.  it
+creates a new HTML::TokeParser based on the referenced string.  It
+also update Apache::lonxml::pwd to point to the location of the data
+in this parser, which is either what was passed in or is set to the
+topmost item in the stack.
+
+4) @Apache::lonxml::pwd
+
+contains a stack of directories corresponding to the stack of parsers