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Subject:    Re: [Doxygen-users] Ideas for accumulating state in filters across files
From:       Dimitri van Heesch <dimitri () stack ! nl>
Date:       2012-09-06 19:23:38
Message-ID: 3BF9B05A-410A-41F4-8422-24AB708E6B39 () stack ! nl
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Hi Morten,

On Sep 5, 2012, at 10:37 , Morten Lemvigh <morten.lemvigh@novasoftware.se> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have created a filter MSBuild XML files. Parts of the 'language' have 
> no namespaces and all documents are imported into one big document. If I 
> use variables in one document that have been defined in another, they 
> are treated as global variables, and I don't have to qualify the 
> variable usage. I could for example have something like:
> 
> File A:
> <FileA_Property>SomeValue</FileA_Property>
> 
> File B:
> <SomeProperty>$(FileA_Property)</SomeProperty>
> 
> Where the contents of of FileA_Property in File A is to be inserted in 
> the place holder in File B.
> 
> I translate each file to a class, and when I write the manual part of 
> the documentation, I can name the variables accordingly in order to have 
> doxygen create links between documents, e.g.: FileA.FileA_Property. In 
> some cases I want to automatically extract the documentation from XML, 
> but since FileA_Property is not in File B, the filter doesn't know how 
> to qualify it.
> 
> What I need is some way to build a table of variable names before 
> running the filter (parse all relevant source files), or alternatively 
> be able to carry over state between invocations of the filter and at the 
> same time be able to specify the order of file processing.
> 
> Any ideas to how I can accomplish this?

To carry over state: use persistent storage (i.e. the disk, or a database)
To specify the order: make a script that generates an explicit file list and
then appends that list to the Doxyfile (with INPUT= in front of it)

Regards,
  Dimitri
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