This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: xref info
- To: bruce at cenderis dot demon dot co dot uk (Bruce Stephens)
- Subject: Re: xref info
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:13:47 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> > "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.)
It's well worth doing some homework on this before diving in, so that
the result is as useful as it can be to as many free software projects
as possible. e.g. contact the KDevelop folks and others and ask
their opinions.
(Might be an opportunity to help heal some of the bad feelings between
the K-folks and the GNU-folks).