[Mono-docs-list] Translator from monodoc XML format to Microsoft XML format
Kevin Downs
kevin@kdowns.com
Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:45:44 +1000
Hold on to your enthusiasm guys...
I'm only writing a quick-and-dirty hack utility to let Mono users produce
docs using NDoc - It's not meant to be a 'production-quality' piece of
coding!
regards,
Kevin
---
"Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot..."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodolfo Campero [mailto:rodolfocampero@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 30 April 2004 3:21 AM
> To: kevin@kdowns.com; gert.driesen@pandora.be; tauberer@for.net
> Cc: mono-docs-list@lists.ximian.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-docs-list] Translator from monodoc XML
> format to Microsoft XML format
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> Given the fact that Kevin is working on a command-line
> utility to convert
> MonoDoc->MS-XML, I consider that it will be a waste of effort
> if I start
> coding such a tool from scratch. So in my opinion the best
> thing to do now is just wait untill Kevin finishes its work.
>
> Do you agree?
>
>
> >From: "Kevin Downs" <kdowns@optusnet.com.au>
> >Reply-To: <kevin@kdowns.com>
> >To: "'Gert Driesen'" <gert.driesen@pandora.be>, "'Rodolfo
> Campero'"
> ><rodolfocampero@hotmail.com>
> >CC: <mono-docs-list@lists.ximian.com>
> >Subject: RE: [Mono-docs-list] Translator from monodoc XML format to
> >Microsoft XML format
> >Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:24:55 +1000
> >
> >At present, all I'm doing is knocking together a quick command-line
> >utility to convert MonoDoc->MS-XML. Eventually this will be
> rolled into
> >Ndoc core; MonoDocs will become a 'native' format and users will be
> >able to freely mix whichever format they have at hand :)
> >
> >There are some complications. The most notable is that
> MS-XML covers a
> >whole assembly in one file whereas (from what I've seen)
> MonoDocs are
> >split by Type.
> >
> >The MonoDoc format is less complex than the NDoc internal XML, so
> >creating a MonoDoc documenter should not be a major issue. The only
> >part that would be complex is the ILASM and C# signatures;
> This is one
> >of the most complex parts in the current documenters' xslt - for the
> >next major release I am looking to provide a much cleaner mechanism.
> >
> >regards,
> >Kevin
> >
> >---
> >"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> >stupidity"
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gert Driesen [mailto:gert.driesen@pandora.be]
> > > Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:57 PM
> > > To: Rodolfo Campero; mono-docs-list@lists.ximian.com
> > > Cc: kdowns@users.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: Re: [Mono-docs-list] Translator from monodoc XML
> format to
> > > Microsoft XML format
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Kevin Downs (NDoc team) has already started working on an NDoc
> > > documenter that will convert MS XML format to Monodoc.
> > > It would be great if the conversion from Monodoc (ECMA) to MS XML
> > > format could be implemented as an NDoc documenter too.
> > >
> > > Gert
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Rodolfo Campero" <rodolfocampero@hotmail.com>
> > > To: <mono-docs-list@lists.ximian.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:45 PM
> > > Subject: [Mono-docs-list] Translator from monodoc XML format to
> > > Microsoft XML format
> > >
> > >
> > > > FYI
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >From: "Rodolfo Campero" <rodolfocampero@hotmail.com>
> > > > >To: tauberer@for.net
> > > > >CC: xiii29@free.fr,
> > > > >mono-list@lists.ximian.com,gellyfish@gellyfish.com,
> > > > >mono-docs-lists@lists.ximian.com
> > > > >Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Question about attributes
> > > > >Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:37:28 +0000
> > > > >
> > > > >Hi Joshua,
> > > > >I already know XSLT, so I will give it a shot this afternoon
> > > > >(it's 10:30
> > > am
> > > > >here in Argentina, I will start working on it at 19:00).
> > > > >Also I will subscribe to mono-docs-list right now, so I will
> > > > >posts questions there if I have to.
> > > > >I would like to know who should I refer to when I get
> something
> > > > >usable,
> > > in
> > > > >order to make it part of mono or monodoc.
> > > > >Best regards,
> > > > >Rodolfo
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >>From: Joshua Tauberer <tauberer@for.net>
> > > > >>To: Rodolfo Campero <rodolfocampero@hotmail.com>
> > > > >>CC: xiii29@free.fr, mono-list@lists.ximian.com,
> > > > >>gellyfish@gellyfish.com
> > > > >>Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Question about attributes
> > > > >>Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:21:26 -0400
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Rodolfo Campero wrote:
> > > > >>>I don't know if there is some effort to create a translator
> > > > >>>from monodoc XML format to Microsoft XML
> documentation format.
> > > > >>>That would be nice, because one could use NDoc to generate
> > > > >>>files for Windows users.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>Does anyone knows about such a tool?
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Since this has come up so many times, I'll work on it
> > > when I get the
> > > > >>chance. (As I keep repeating on the docs list, the two
> > > formats are
> > > > >>so similar that it would be trivial for anyone to
> learn XSLT, if
> > > > >>necessary, and write the conversion themselves if they
> > > wanted it.
> > > > >>It would also
> > > make
> > > > >>a nice project if someone is looking for a way to
> contribute to
> > > > >>Mono.)
> > > > >>
> > > > >>--
> > > > >>- Joshua Tauberer
> > > > >>
> > > > >>http://taubz.for.net
> > > > >>
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