Re: Finding API documentation by function name

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Raja Mukherji schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a binding generator for my language to Gtk and want the
> generator to be able to insert documentation into the generated code
> automatically. Is there any existing program/script for getting the
> documentation associated with a specific api function? For example:
>
> <program> gtk_about_dialog_new
>
> could print out the lines (as copied from devhelp):
>
> Creates a new GtkAboutDialog.
>
> Returns :
>       a newly created GtkAboutDialog
>
> Or it could (preferably) print them out in XML, or some other structured format.
>
> I could probably fashion something myself, possibly from the files
> that devhelp generates, but I was wondering if anyone has already done
> so, or knows of any existing solution.

Gtk-doc uses docbook-xml, so you could use xslt to cut out chunks. Unfortunately
most stuff should not be copied to bindings docs as arguments can change and
c-specific things are not needed there.

Stefan

> Thanks
> Raja Mukherji
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