Documentation match - well, yes and no. Much depends on what version of IOS is on your 3500, and even then, commands sometimes change across different versions. (In fact, sometimes when you upgrade, the IOS will change "old" commands to "new" commands, but that doesn't happen for downgrades.)
For port configuration documentation, if Cisco still has early version 3560/3750 (do you know where to look for that?), that might be somewhat/very similar to a 3500's, although I believe your 3500 fiber gig ports are GBICs, while I recall 3560/3750 fiber ports are SFPs (BTW, you understand you don't need to have same transceiver on both sides of a fiber link, although, generally, they need to support the same fiber protocol). (For either, though, if you insert the correct fiber transceiver, and attach the correct fiber with something compatible on the other side of the fiber link, fiber link should work.)
