Re: [xml] libxml2-api.xml

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:14:22AM +0100, Petr Kozelka wrote:
> >   It's in CVS, I just pushed a new version with a full coverage of the
> > libxml2 interface including type, names and descriptions for every
> > exported symbol. It's now nearly 500KBytes, so I have put a copy at
> >     http://veillard.com/libxml2-api.xml
>
> ok, thanks; now some questions about the future, after having first look at it:
> - do you intend to create detailed structure describing the type, instead of just "type" attribute with the 
> C-style declaration ?
> (this would be especially useful for header translation)

  Not sure I want/can go down to that level of detail.

> - it would be nice if those 'enum' -like constants were grouped together as enumerations, with info per 
> enum + per constant (this
> would require special comments I'm afraid)

  I have the info if a constant comes from a given enum, I can probably
serialize it, yes

> - wouldn't it make sense to put the declarations ("function" and "macro") right under "file", so that it is 
> easier to find where a
> symbol is declared ?

  I prefer to use an attribute for this at the moment.

> - what about libxslt-api.xml ?

  Once the tool generation chain and the associated XSLT
to generate other stuff are done and sufficiently debugged.

Daniel

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