Re: question to all about PHP_Parser functionality
| From: | Arnaud Limbourg | Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:28:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: question to all about PHP_Parser functionality | ||
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> Hi,
>
> Is there interest in a separate Doc comment parsing package that would
> interface with the PHP_Parser, or work as a standalone? The Doc comment
> parser would be plugin-oriented to allow parsing of different doc
> comment formats, and would basically be the doc comment parser that I am
> developing for phpDocumentor. Plans are to be able to document
> phpDocumentor-style doc comments, doxygen-style doc comments, and if
> other weird formats come along, to support them as well. This will be
> useful for projects like PDS, and possibly for the PEAR installer's
> source code analyser, as it could use this to verify that documentation
> exists for packages, in the quest for PFC.
>
> The primary use will be for phpDocumentor, and for a utility to convert
> comment types from one to another (one could convert from phpDocumentor
> doc comments to doxygen and back easily if they are both parsed into the
> same kind of structure).
>
> Is there interest in a PHP_DocComment_Parser package?
Yes, there is !
Arnaud.