[Mono-list] Why doesn't mcs generate XML documentation?

[Giuseppe Greco]

On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 03:24, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> Giuseppe Greco wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > why doesn't mcs generate XML documentation?
> 
> Guess mainly 'cause nobody felt the need to implement it?
> 
> BTW: To my knowlegde the Mono project decided not to use inline 
> documentation for Mono's library documentation. Details of that decision 
> should be available in the mail archives. To my knowledge the monodoc 
> module contains tools to extract documentation stubs from source code...
> 
> > [...], and I would like to know how can I generate
> > documentation like the one generated by hcc.exe on Windows
> > (hcc.exe generates either compiled or HTML documentation from
> > the XML files generated by csc.exe when the "-doc" option is
> > specified).
> > 
> > Is there something similar to hcc.exe (Help Compiler Workshop)
> > for linux?
> 
> A free program generating HTML from those XML files is ndoc 
> (http://ndoc.sf.net/). Don't know if it runs on Linux now, last time I 
> checked it didn't. Since it's implemented in C# it shouldn't be _that_ 
> hard to fix the glitches. ;-)

I'll give a look at ndoc...

> 
> Personally I am using Doxygen (http://www.doxygen.org/) to  generate 
> inline documenation. Ok, it's C# support isn't perfect, but useable. 
> Additionally it's able to parse many other languages. Something that's 
> important for me. Something which csc.exe naturally cannot offer.

Yes, I've been using doxygen for a long time and I know it quite
well.

> 
> To get all your documentation into one file: Doxygen can generate the 
> additional files needed by hcc, needed to generate compiled HTML Help.
> Works quite well. It also appears to be able to generate PDF files, but 
> I have to admit that I have not used this option yet.

If you want to product PDF or PS documents, you have to let Doxygen
generate LaTeX source files; then, you can process them whit LaTeX.
You can also generate man documentation.

> 
> If you care about your MS-style inline-doc comments: Once wrote a VIM 
> script doing the conversion, when I was faced with the task to switch 
> from MS style to doxygen style. Pretty sure that I still can find the 
> script, when I search. ;-)
> 

Thanks,
Gius_.

> Ciao,
> Mathias
> 
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