Re: FW: [Doxygen-develop] Extracting more source struture in XML output

[Dimitri v. H. <di...@st...>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:50:25AM +0100, Chris Croughton wrote:
> (Emailed to OP as well as to the list, the sourceforge list server was
> bouncing my mails, I don't know if it still is doing so...)
> 
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:42:07PM -0700, Pau...@no... wrote:
> 
> > Doxygen's XML schema is a good starting point to add to if I want a
> > complete XML representation of the code, so I would like to add to it
> > rather than invent another schema. Also can anyone give me some
> > pointers where I would change the Doxygen code to output more source
> > code structure? Doxygen must know much of this information anyway, as
> > it has some more detailed information in the highlight elements of the
> > source file XML files.
> 
> I would very much like a C/C++ to XML translator, which seems to be what
> you are suggesting as a possibility (or an extreme version of what you
> are suggesting).  As you say it opens up a lot of possibilities for
> extra tools, as well as for having doxygen produce internal
> documentation (like local variables, tables of which functions use which
> global variables (set and read), etc.  It needs to be switchable,
> though.

Doxygen already produces XML. It could be improved to add more semantic
information about the bodies of functions, for instance to indicate if
something is a declaration, control statement, loop or assigment. 
Doxygen does not have this information explicitly available somewhere already
even though it can do syntax highlighting and linking.

> While I'm thinking about switches, it would be very useful to have
> options settable from the command line, not just in the configuration
> file.  For some purposes I have to maintain three or more versions of
> the config file (implementer detail, user detail, overview, sometimes
> with or without relationship charts as well), a switch to set options
> would be a lot easier to put in a makefile with a common config file for
> all the messy stuff (include/exclude lists, etc.).  Oh, and the version
> number.  Or have I missed something which already allows this?

If you use a decent shell, you could use something like this:

(cat Doxyfile ; echo "PROJECT_NUMBER=0.2") | doxygen -

Regards,
  Dimitri