NAME

       mdassembler - Compile documentation for use in monodoc browser

SYNOPSIS

       mdassembler OPTIONS* DIRS+

DESCRIPTION

       mdassembler 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 /monodoc/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 documentation 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 Documentation 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/ErrorNumSubstringStart      and
       /ErrorProviderConfig/ErrorNumSubstringLength control which portion of the filename is used
       as  the  error  number,  and  /ErrorProviderConfig/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  documentation.   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 documentation.

SEE ALSO

       mdcs2ecma(1), mdnormalizer(1), mdoc(1),  mdoc-assemble(1),  mdvalidator(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

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