[Mono-docs-list] Mono basic docs from ECMA

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 18:39 +0200, Amrein-Marie Christophe wrote:
> I hope that nobody has already asked this question:
> 
> Why not merge Mono documentation with original documentation from ECMA
> CLILibraryTypes.xml file?
> 
> www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-335.zip

Been there, done that, wrote the XML import support for mdoc-update:

http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?tlink=10@man%3amdoc-update(1)

	-i, --import=FILE

	Import documentation found within FILE.

	FILE may contain either csc /doc XML or ECMA-335 XML.

The problem is, ECMA-335 doesn't contain documentation for very many
types -- only 331 types and 3797 members.  This sounds like a lot, until
you realize that mscorlib.dll has 1283 public types containing 2464
members, and System.Xml (also partially documented in ECMA-335) has 258
types with 4952 members, so the documentation included in ECMA-335 is
really just a drop in the proverbial bucket.

 - Jon