RE: [Doxygen-develop] Status of XML development? (was Adding of n ew (all) HTML entities?)

[Prikryl,Petr <PRI...@sk...>]

Hi Michael and others,

Michael Lindig wrote...
> you wish the XML feature. Have you an idea of the XML output format ?
> think the format shall be like this:
>
> <DOXYGEN>
>  	<file path="...">
[snip]
> Have you another idea ? 

There already is someone, who works on the XML part (Dimitri or someone
else?).  If you look at doxygen/addon/xmlgen directory, you can find sources
and also doxygen.dtd.  That person is definitely better in XML that I am.
It is also important to have knowledge of doxygen's internal structures 
(what elements are extracted by the parser) to choose the appropriate tags.

This is not my case.  I am not prepared enough to discuss
how the XML tags of doxygen should look like, or not.

However, I feel that XML is the right way to go, and I wish that more
doxygen developers/users were interested in XML output.  Until now,
I have only heard that some experimental XML support for doxygen
is being implemented.  I understand, that possibly only one or two
persons should work on that in the early stages of development.

In my last article I tried to explain why I wish the XML be the major
intermediate and output format, and express my opinion on adding
new character entities into doxygen generators.  Being one of the
language maintainers, I was thinking hard about how the problems
with special characters and various encoding should be solved.
My personal opinion is that it would be endless work without XML.
Briefly, XML is good for capturing semantics inside documents, and it
solves the support for various languages and encodings.

Is anybody here (or any document) to explain current status of
doxygen's XML development?

Thanks,
  Petr

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