Re: [wxhaskell-users] autogenerating wxc from wxWidgets Doxygen output?

[Mads L. <mad...@ya...>]

Hi

Eric Kow wrote:

> This is where Kevin Ollivier of wxWidgets pointed out something
> interesting: in the current wxWidgets trunk, it should be possible to
> automatically generate the C bindings from the Doxygen XML output.  In
> fact, he has already done something similar for Python, metadata to
> Python objects:

....

> 
> Now that wxHaskell 0.11 has been released with wxWidgets 2.8 support, is
> it time to take this back-end stuff more seriously?  It sounds like what
> one of us could do is hack up a quick XSLT sheet or something similar to
> produce the C bindings.  Maybe a HaXml program as a prototype?

I have never done any XSLT programming before (have done some XPath
though), but still thought I would give it a try. I have attached the
XSL program and the output.

The XSLT program is nowhere near finished, just a beginning to see if it
is a path worth pursuing. And to get feedback...

Besides the overly verbose syntax, I did not feel like XSLT were a good
match for the task. It was hard to factor out common patterns - aka. the
composability of XSLT seems poor. But this may just be my lack of
experience with XSLT. If I could have done something smarter I am all
ears.

I used to Saxon 8.8J for processing.


Greetings,

Mads Lindstrøm