docb_gen
Generate XML from EDoc comments in Erlang source code.
docb_gen
contains functions for generating XML
documentation source code according to the erlref
or
chapter
DTD from
EDoc comments in Erlang
source code or an overview.edoc
file, using EDoc.
Functions
module(File) -> ok | {error, Reason}
module(File, Options) -> ok | {error, Reason}
File = string()
Options = [Opt]
Opt = {def,Defs} | {includes,Dirs} | {preprocess,Bool} | {sort_functions,Bool}
Defs = [{atom(),string()}]
Dirs = [string()]
Bool = bool()
Reason = badfile | {badopt,term()} | term()
Generates XML documentation source code according to
the erlref
DTD from EDoc comments File
, using
the EDoc application.
File
is an Erlang source file, given with or without
the .erl
extension as Name.erl
or Name
.
The resulting XML file is created in the current working
directory and named Name.xml
.
Options
is a list of options, see below.
Returns ok
if successful, and an error tuple
otherwise.
users_guide(File) -> ok | {error, Reason}
users_guide(File, Options) -> ok | {error, Reason}
File -- see module/1,2
Options -- see module/1,2
Reason -- see module/1,2
Like module/1,2
but generates XML source code
according to the chapter
DTD from an
overview.edoc
or similar file.
The resulting file is named chapter.xml
.
Options
{def, [{Name,Text}]}
- Specifies EDoc macro definitions. See edoc:get_doc/2.
{includes, [Dir]}
- Specifies directories where EDoc should search for include files. See edoc:read_source/2.
{preprocess, true|false}
- Specifies if EDoc should read the source file via the Erlang
preprocessor. Default is
false
. See edoc:read_source/2. {sort_functions, true|false}
- Specifies if the functions in the resulting XML file should
be sorted alphabetically. Default is
true
.
Limitations
The mapping from the EDoc XHTML output to valid Erlang/OTP XML
is not complete. An attempt has been made to cover the most
commonly used XHTML constructs, but there will still be cases
where XML generation fails or where the resulting XML is
inadequate. This is especially true for users_guide/1,2
.
Known limitations for some XHTML tags:
<a>
-
All attributes except the first
href
orname
attribute are ignored.A
href
attribute means the<a>
tag will be transformed to a<seealso>
or<url>
tag and an attempt is made to resolve the reference if necessary.A
name
attribute means the<a>
tag will be transformed to a<marker>
tag. <b>, <em>, <pre>
- Cannot contain other tags in Erlang/OTP XML, content is converted to plain text.
<center>
- No corresponding Erlang/OTP XML tag, converted to plain text.
<font>
- No corresponding Erlang/OTP XML tag, converted to plain text.
<h1>, <h2>, ...
- There is no tag corresponding to a header in Erlang/OTP XML,
so these are converted to plain text instead, with
the exception of
<h3>
and<h4>
tags withinoverview.edoc
, see part about "chapter
DTD" below. <sup>
- There is no tag corresponding to superscript in Erlang/OTP XML, so this is converted to plain text within brackets "(..)".
- References
- The markers automatically inserted by EDoc at each heading
and function will override the markers automatically inserted
by DocBuilder, with the unfortunate result that the links in
the left-hand frame of the User's Guide will not work, and
also that cross referencing a function in a module the usual
Erlang/OTP way
"
<seealso marker="edoc:edoc#run/3...>
" does not work. (But "<seealso marker="edoc:edoc#run-3...>
" does.)
erlref DTD
- Tables
- Tables are not allowed. The contents of a table is converted to text instead, each row corresponding to one line of text.
chapter DTD
- Sections
- Only two levels of sections.
<h3>
(equivalent to EDoc headings "== Heading ==
") is interpreted as start of top-level section, or if there is no<h3>
tag, the entire document is made into one top-level section.<h4>
(equivalent to EDoc sub-headings ("=== Sub-heading ===
") is interpreted as start of second-level section. - Tables
- Tables without borders are converted to text in the same
manner as for the
erlref
DTD.