Appendix C. Generic View Reference
Chapter 11 introduced generic views but leaves out some of the gory details. This appendix describes each generic view along with all the options each view can take. Be sure to read Chapter 11 before trying to understand the reference material that follows. You might want to refer to the Book, Publisher, and Author objects defined in that chapter; the examples that follow use these models.
Common Arguments to Generic Views
Most of these views take a large number of arguments that can change the generic view's behavior. Many of these arguments work the same across a large number of views. Table C-1 describes each of these common arguments; any time you see one of these arguments in a generic view's argument list, ...
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