[Mono-docs-list] Translator from monodoc XML format to Microsoft XML format

[Erik Dasque]

Hi all,

we were looking for such a tool to convert our GTK# documentation to 
MS-XML for our upcoming GTK+/GTK# installer in early June.

Is that something that exist today ?

Erik


On Apr 29, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Kevin Downs wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> ** Nothing Unreal Exists **
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