Re: [Doxygen-users] Ignoring namespaces used for forward declarations

[Dimitri v. H. <do...@gm...>]

On 08 Apr 2014, at 15:33 , Robert Dailey <rcd...@gm...> wrote:

> In my code I have a couple of forward declarations of classes in other
> distant, unrelated namespaces:
> 
> namespace foo
> {
>    class bar;
> }
> 
> These get parsed out by Doxygen (v1.8.6) and appear empty in the HTML
> output. Is there a way that Doxygen can be "smart" enough to ignore a
> namespace if there isn't anything tangible inside of it? It would have
> to know to ignore them if they are empty or only contain forward
> declarations.

You can:
- not document the namespace and set EXTRACT_ALL to NO
- use EXCLUDE_SYMBOLS = foo
- surround the namespace with /// @cond ... /// @endcond
- surround the namespace with #ifndef DOXYGEN_SKIP ... #endif and set PREDEFINED = DOXYGEN_SKIP

Regards,
  Dimitri