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-var path = require('canonical-path');
-var fs = require('fs');
-
-/**
- * @dgService exampleTabsInlineTagDef
- * @description
- * Process inline example tags (of the form {@example relativePath region -title='some title'
- * -stylePattern='{some style pattern}' }),
- * replacing them with a jade makeExample mixin call.
- * Examples:
- * {@exampleTabs core/application_spec.ts,core/application_spec.ts "hello-app,hello-app2"
- * -titles="Hello app1, Hello app2" }
- * {@exampleTabs core/application_spec.ts,core/application_spec.ts regions="hello-app,hello-app2"
- * -titles="Hello app1, Hello app2" }
- * @kind function
- */
-module.exports = function exampleTabsInlineTagDef(getLinkInfo, parseArgString) {
-  return {
-    name: 'exampleTabs',
-    description:
-        'Process inline example tags (of the form {@example some/uri Some Title}), replacing them with HTML anchors',
-    handler: function(doc, tagName, tagDescription) {
-
-      var tagArgs = parseArgString(tagDescription);
-      var unnamedArgs = tagArgs._;
-      var relativePaths = unnamedArgs[0].split(',');
-      var regions = tagArgs.regions || (unnamedArgs.length > 1 ? unnamedArgs[1] : null);
-      var titles = tagArgs.titles || (unnamedArgs.length > 2 ? unnamedArgs[2] : null);
-      if (regions) {
-        regions = regions.split(',');
-      }
-
-      // TODO: not yet implemented here
-      // var stylePatterns = tagArgs.stylePattern;
-
-      var mixinPaths = relativePaths.map(function(relativePath, ix) {
-        // eslint-disable-next-line no-undef
-        var fragFileName = getApiFragmentFileName(relativePath, regions && regions[ix]);
-        if (!fs.existsSync(fragFileName)) {
-          // TODO: log.warn(createDocMessage('Invalid example (unable to locate fragment file: ' +
-          // quote(fragFileName) + ")", doc));
-        }
-        return path.join('_api', relativePath);
-      });
-
-      var comma = ', ';
-      var pathsArg = quote(mixinPaths.join(','));
-      var regionsArg = regions ? quote(regions.join(',')) : 'null';
-      var titlesArg = titles ? quote(titles) : 'null';
-      var res = ['+makeTabs(', pathsArg, comma, regionsArg, comma, titlesArg, ')'].join('');
-      return res;
-    }
-
-  };
-};
-
-function quote(str) {
-  if (str == null || str.length === 0) return str;
-  str = str.replace('\'', '\'\'');
-  return '\'' + str + '\'';
-}