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

[Chris C. <do...@ke...>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:49:53PM +0200, Dimitri van Heesch wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it's the bodies of functions that I (and the OP) was thinking of.
I suspect that a general C/C++ to XML translator is more than Doxygen
wants to contain, however (let alone any other supported languages).

> > 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 -

Ah, taking the config stuff from stdin was something I had missed,
thanks.  Yes, that would work fine, as would piping it through sed to
change options.  Or rules setting up an additional file and then cat-ing
both of them into doxygen.

What does Doxygen do if the same option occurs more than once?  Take the
last?  That would make an easy way to override options for special
cases.

Thanks,

Chris C