XML Documentation Parser

[pansophic]

Has anyone found or created an XML parser that supports more flags and better parsing than the one that is included with VS .NET? I had been using Javadoc, which supports tags like @version and @author, and then supports nice run-time flags, like -public and -private. It also generates far more useful web pages, with sections for Methods, Constructors, etc.

Now one of the projects that I was working on has switched over to C#, so we need to use VS, but we are very disappointed in the documenation parser. I'd be very interested to hear what others are doing.
pansophic

 

[pansophic]

Found one on my own. MSDN has a documentation parser written as an Add-In dll, with source code.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/defa...=/MSDN-FILES/026/002/750/msdncompositedoc.xml

You can modify it to your heart's content and build your own commnet pages directly from the Tools menu.

Unlike the built-in documentation parser, it supports VB and C++ as well.
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[chiph]

That's cool.

But my biggest beef is that VS.NET won't allow me to define my own XML tags for a class or method. I'd like to include things like revision history (with the VSS replacable parameters in there), but the compiler chokes on it.

Chip H.