[Mono-list] Monodoc -- Can we use this to document our application?

[Ian MacLean]

Joshua Tauberer wrote:

> rus wrote:
>
>> On a related note, I was just wondering.. is there any way of using NDoc
>> to generate monodoc documentation?
>
>
> No, but as I often say, the documentation formats are pretty close.  
> If you want that functionality, making a converter should be possible, 
> and not too difficult.
>
This is probably better implemented as an ndoc Documenter [1]. These are 
plugin classes that generate a given output format from ndocs xml format 
( which is basically MS's xml format - the one that gets generated by 
the /doc argument to csc ). Current documenters include:
- plain xml
- MSDN format
- javadoc format
- LaTex

writing a documenter that generates monodoc format woudl be fairly easy 
- and may even be as easy as hosting an xslt transform. THe documenter 
implementation is also quite straight forward - we wrote one for NAnt to 
auto-generate the end user doc for tasks.

However the other thing thats missing is the implementation of the /doc 
arg for mcs.exe. Otherwise there will be no input for ndoc to use. I 
know Atsushi submitted a patch a while back - did that ever get committed ?

[1]http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/content/documenters.htm