mdassembler(1)mdassembler(1)NAMEmdassembler - Compile documentation for use in monodoc browser
SYNOPSISmdassembler OPTIONS* DIRS+
DESCRIPTIONmdassembler has been obsoleted by mdoc(1). See the mdoc-assemble(1)
man page.
mdassembler is a program that creates .tree and .zip files for use in
the monodoc documentation browser.
The .tree and .zip files are copied into monodoc's sources directory,
and reside with a .source file which is used by monodoc to specify
where the documentation should be displayed. The .source file's /mon‐
odoc/source/@basefile attribute specifies the filename prefix for the
documentation files. This must be the same prefix as used with the
--out parameter.
OPTIONS--ecma The documentation found within DIRS is in the Mono ECMA documen‐
tation format. See the Mono ECMA Documentation Format section
below.
--ecmaspec
The documentation found within DIRS is in the ECMA Specification
documentation format. See the Mono ECMA Specification Documen‐
tation Format section below.
--error
The documentation found within DIRS is in "error" format. See
the Error Documentation Format section below.
--help Show program argument information.
--man The documentation found within DIRS is in man page format. See
the Man Page Documentation Format section below.
-o, --out PREFIX
Specify the output file prefix. mdassembler creates the files
PREFIX.zip and PREFIX.tree .
--simple
The documentation found within DIRS is in "simple" format. See
the Simple Documentation Format section below.
--xhtml, --hb
The documentation found within DIRS is in XHTML format. See the
XHTML Documentation Format section below.
FORMATS
The following documentation formats are supported:
Mono ECMA Documentation Format
An XML documentation format with one file per type.
See the mdoc(5) man page for more information.
Mono ECMA Specification Documentation Format
This is not the format you're looking for.
This is the format used to represent the ECMA-334 (C#) standard within
monodoc. It is not used to display class library documentation; for
class library documentation, use the --ecma format.
Error Documentation Format
Used to present detailed error messages, and is used in monodoc's "C#
Compiler Error Reference" tree. DIRS is not a directory, but is
instead a configuration file, containing the XML:
<ErrorProviderConfig>
<FilesPath>../../mcs/errors</FilesPath>
<Match>cs????*.cs</Match>
<ErrorNumSubstringStart>2</ErrorNumSubstringStart>
<ErrorNumSubstringLength>4</ErrorNumSubstringLength>
<FriendlyFormatString>CS{0:0###}</FriendlyFormatString>
</ErrorProviderConfig>
/ErrorProviderConfig/FilesPath specifies where to look for files,
/ErrorProviderConfig/Match specifies the filename pattern to look for
within /ErrorProviderConfig/FilesPath, /ErrorProviderConfig/ErrorNum‐
SubstringStart and /ErrorProviderConfig/ErrorNumSubstringLength control
which portion of the filename is used as the error number, and /Error‐
ProviderConfig/FriendlyFormatString controls how the formatting/display
of the node in the monodoc tree.
For each file found, it is converted to HTML with C# syntax coloring
applied.
Simple Documentation Format
Converts text files into HTML by translating each newline into an HTML
<br> element.
Man Page Documentation Format
Converts man pages into HTML for display.
XHTML Documentation Format
Copies the XHTML file as-is.
EXAMPLES
To install your documenation for use with monodoc:
Create a PREFIX.source file
with the contents:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<monodoc>
<source provider="FORMAT" basefile="PREFIX" path="PATH"/>
</monodoc>
where FORMAT is the documentation format contained within the
PREFIX.tree file, e.g. ecma, or simple. PREFIX is the basename
of the .tree and .zip files that mdassembler creates. PATH is
the "path" in the monodoc tree that should contain the documen‐
tation. See the @prefix@/lib/monodoc/monodoc.xml file for a
list of PATH values (the //node/@name values).
See also: http://www.mono-project.com/Generating_Documentation
Create your documentation
See also the monodocer(1) man page, e.g.
monodocer -assembly:foo.dll -path:foo/en
Assemble the documentation
mdassembler--ecma foo/en PREFIX
Make sure that you use the same PREFIX here as you did above.
Install the documentation by using the command
cp PREFIX.source PREFIX.tree PREFIX.zip \
`pkg-config monodoc --variable=sourcesdir`
(Note the backticks used in the pkg-config command!) This
copies the .source , .tree , and .zip files into the monodoc
sources directory, which will allow monodoc to display the docu‐
mentation.
SEE ALSOmdcs2ecma(1), mdnormalizer(1), mdoc(1), mdoc-assemble(1), mdvalida‐
tor(1), monodocer(1), monodocs2html(1)MAILING LISTS
Visit http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-docs-list for
details.
WEB SITE
See also: http://www.mono-project.com and http://www.mono-
project.com/Assembler
mdassembler(1)
