// <tr>
            //   <td><link linkend="$id"><literal>$name</literal></link</td>
            //   <td>$description</td>
            // </tr>
            tr = document.createElement("tr");
            parent.appendChild(tr);

            td = document.createElement("td");
            tr.appendChild(td);
            Element link = document.createElement("link");
            td.appendChild(link);

        given:
        sampleDoc << """
=== Valid Javadoc Links

Be sure to see: `@link:{javadocPath}/org/gradle/api/tasks/InputDirectory.html[InputDirectory]`

            propertyMetaData.setType(new TypeMetaData(type.getName()));

            Element para = doc.createElement("para");
            para.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("The "));
            para.appendChild(linkRenderer.link(propertyMetaData.getType(), listener));
            para.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(String.format(" added by the %s plugin.", extensionDoc.getPluginId())));

       <title>Incubating APIs</title>
       <link xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,400i,700">
       <meta xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" name="viewport">

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### Context
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import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction

/**
 * Extracts meta-data from the Groovy and Java source files which make up the Gradle API. Persists the meta-data to a file
 * for later use in generating documentation for the DSL, such as by {@link gradlebuild.docs.dsl.docbook.AssembleDslDocTask}.
 */
@CacheableTask
abstract class ExtractDslMetaDataTask extends SourceTask {
    @OutputFile
    abstract RegularFileProperty getDestinationFile();

    /**

val Project.buildBranch: Provider<String>
    get() = environmentVariable(BUILD_BRANCH).orElse(currentGitBranchViaFileSystemQuery())


/**
 * The logical branch.
 * For non-merge-queue branches this is the same as {@link #buildBranch}.
 * For merge-queue branches, this is the base branch.
 *
 * For example, for the merge queue branch "gh-readonly-queue/master/pr-12345-1a2b3c4d" the logical branch is "master".
 */

            para.appendChild(document.createTextNode(String.format("Note: This %s is ", type)));
            Element link = document.createElement("ulink");
            para.appendChild(link);
            link.setAttribute("url", "../userguide/feature_lifecycle.html");
            link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("deprecated"));

            <tr>
                <td>
                    <literal><link linkend="method1Id">methodName</link>()</literal>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <para>method description</para>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <literal><link linkend="method2Id">methodName</link>(p)</literal>
                </td>
                <td>

import org.w3c.dom.Document
import org.w3c.dom.Element
/**
 * Generates the docbook source for the DSL reference guide.
 *
 * Uses the following as input:
 * <ul>
 * <li>Meta-data extracted from the source by {@link gradlebuild.docs.dsl.source.ExtractDslMetaDataTask}.</li>
 * <li>Meta-data about the plugins, in the form of an XML file.</li>