Re: [docbook-apps] using docbook for API reference documentation

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Alan Ezust <>
Date
2006-04-21T12:15:02+00:00
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Re: [docbook-apps] using docbook for API reference documentation
oops - my bad. It generates latex and a flavor of xml which is
definitely not docbook. It might be straightforward to transform to
docbook from that XML flavor, but it doesn't look like a trivial task.
I heard one could convert latex to docbook though...

On 4/21/06, Stefan Seefeld <> wrote:
> Alan Ezust wrote:
> > Doxygen can generate API documentation in Docbook (and other formats)
> > already. What is it you want to be able to do that Doxygen can't do?
>
> I wasn't aware of doxygen generating docbook.
> http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/output.html only talks about
> 'XML' output, which is "under development". Do you have any other
> references, or even examples ?
>
> (I'm not looking for a tool that I can use to document my APIs
>   with docbook. Rather, I'm looking for ways to use docbook to
>   format (in particular: structure) my documentation that
>   was extracted from source code, i.e. modules, classes, functions,
>   types, variables, etc.)
>
> Thanks,
>                 Stefan
>