Roland Illig wrote:

> in which file are the XML tags for the pkgsrc guide defined? I grepped 
> around in htdocs/ and pkgsrc/doc/guide, but couldn't find any definition.
> 
> I am using <varname> quite happily for anything, and I would like to 
> know more (similar) tags to describe things more properly.

You mention <varname>, so I guess you want to know the official DocBook
tags:
  http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/part2.html

You can find the DTD files on your machine

  $ pkg_info -L docbook-xml

although this a bit harder to digest, IMO :-).

ciao
     Klaus