Re: xref info

[Bruce Stephens <bruce at cenderis dot demon dot co dot uk>]

Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM> writes:

> > If you can make it work (especially if you can add preprocessor
> > stuff), there are, of course, lots of projects which can start using
> > it right away.  Most of them already use XML, so that would be best.
> > (Source Navigator is the exception, I think, but XML would be OK for
> > that too.)
> 
> "XML" is pretty generic.  Are there any XML DTDs for the purpose of
> describing symbols in software in existence that could be re-used?

Sorry, I should have referenced some specific projects.  One is SDS,
and they've devised a Code Structure Format,
<http://sds.sourceforge.net/doc/csf.html> (and there's a DTD there).

The other one is the freakily similar Synopsis,
<http://synopsis.sourceforge.net/>, which I thought also used XML.
But it doesn't (yet, anyway).

I thought I knew of some others, but I can't think of any.  So it
looks like the only concrete DTD that I know of is CSF.

(Obviously, things like KDevelop could use the information---I'm
fairly sure it already uses XML formats for other things, and
doubtless if gcc could produce xref information in XML support for
this would quickly be added to it.  Also gIDE, I guess.)