Re: [PHP-DEV] javadoc, phpdoc, XML, and PEAR From: Ulf Wendel (UW <email protected>)
Date: 05/15/00

Joey wrote:
> Maybe inline is not the right place for what I am thinking of.
> Maybe what I am thinking of has no place whatsoever in PHP/PEAR,
> but before it gets completely shot down, let me try to pass the
> vision along...
>
> I see aweb interface to PEAR. Since I agree that maybe inline is
> not the right way for this to work, let's say the user is asked to
> to upload a normal PEAR file, perhaps using current
> CODING_STANDARDS, or whatever comes out of all of this...
>
> The "thingy" (as Larry Wall would say) that handles the file
> upload runs the PEAR file through my theoretical XML validating
> parser, and generates a companion XML file that can be used as the
> "online documentation" for this particular PEAR module. When it
> has finished (before it even starts?) building the XML document,
> it simply attempts to validate it.
>
> If the document can be validated (is both well-formed and conforms
> to it's DTD), then the PEAR file is added to the PEAR dir, and the
> XML file is added to the list of to-be-updated-on-some-website-
> somewhere files.

Hi Joey,

all these ideas are really great, just they won't work. There
tools missing we would need to realize such a system. For example
you can't validate (compare it with a DTD) an XML document with
PHP yet. And I agree with Stig that it's somehow an "extended
parser" that belong to the language core.

I don't think we have to worry about PEAR module that do not
follow the Coding Standards whatever they will finally look like.
Be sure a few days after publishing a PEAR module that does not
follow the coding rules, there will be discussion on it ;-)

Ulf 

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