Re: [Doxygen-users] xml

[Hunter M. <hma...@vi...>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0200, Dimitri van Heesch wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:26:00AM -0700, Hunter Marshall wrote:
> > I will begin working with a smaller case. Is the doxygen.dtd file in
> > doxygen-1.2.11.1/addon/xmlparse the associated DTD? 
> 
> No, it is just something that could be used as a starting point ;-)
> Any help on writing a proper DTD is highly welcomed.

After playing with xsl/fop, I think that maybe the DTD structure might
be an area for experimentation. For example, I am finding that the
numbering control in XSLT (<xsl:number>) does not go outside a
sequence of sibling nodes. I suppose some cool XSL hacker could do
it. It's not like LaTeX where you can tap your own custom counter when
you want the next number value in a sequence.

What I mean is that the numbering works well for something like

chap
 sec
  subsec
  subsec
 sec
  subsec
chap
 sec
  subsec

Whereas the doxygen DTD (at a highlevel) looks like

compounddef
 compoundname
 sectiondef
  memberdef (the dtd and the output differ on this)
  memberdef
  memberdef
 sectiondef
  memberdef
 detaileddescriptio

I don't have any suggestions yet. I am just now realizing the impact
of DTD design on the ease of processing. 

	hunter

PS Should this go to doxygen-develop? Or to a smaller group than
doxygen-users?