[Vala] libxml2 vapi

[Leonardo Boshell <leonardo lists kmc com co>]

Hi,

Good work and thanks for the latest release.

As I mentioned on a previous post, I'm interested in helping out with
documenting the various bindings available to vala. I've been playing
with different ideas on how to do it, and at this moment I have a couple
of alternatives in mind.

Basically they would involve the automated creation of docbook skeleton
files that would then be manually populated based on the original
documentation of the relevant libraries. I think having all the details
of the VAPI files in docbook format would provide a good balance between
expressiveness and usability.

Anyway, regarding the implementation of such a tool, my first option
would be writing it in vala; it would be great for learning purposes,
and it would re-use all the code analysis stages implemented by the vala
parser. However, the XML handling would be an important piece and as of
now the libxml2 vapi file in the repository is still incomplete.

So my question would be, are you close to releasing the VAPI generator
you've mentioned in the list? I'd like to try it on libxml2 so I can
start working on the doc tool. Or would it be possible that you use it
to update libxml-2.0.vala in the repository?

Thanks in advance.

Leonardo