[Doxygen-users] Fwd: Identifying Objective-C code from the XML

[Michael J. <m.p...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am the maintainer of an open source project called Breathe which relies
on the excellent xml output from Doxygen to include Doxygen processed code
& comment information in Sphinx documentation.

Breathe has generally focussed on C & C++ output but recently we've had
requests to support Objective-C code as well which has very different
formatting. As Breathe doesn't know any better it attempts to stick the
information in the XML together as if it is C style output and so produces
a bit of a mess for Objective-C style declarations.

I am curious how doxygen tracks that a particular declaration should be
output as Objective-C and how that might be reflected in the XML output in
such as way that Breathe might take advantage of it.

Unfortunately, I know very little of Objective-C so I don't really know
what I am looking for. That said, from an inspection of the XML output for
an example Objective-C interface the only clues I can see are that the
'ids' begin with 'interface' and that there are strangely placed square
brackets and colons in the definition & param values :)

Is the 'interface' prefix sufficient information in this case? Is there
another way of determining that Objective-C might be involved?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Michael


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