[Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files
Michael Van Canneyt
michael at freepascal.org
Thu Dec 19 23:31:20 CET 2019
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Don Siders via lazarus wrote:
>> BTW: User Don Siders is doing an excellent job in continuously
>> submitting patches for the xml files. The help files have improved
>> considerably since then (I wonder how he is editing the xml files.)
>
> Thanks for the compliment.
>
> I am using the IDE to navigate source and determine ancestry. I use
> Atom to edit the FP Doc XML description files (due to its support for
> XML syntax and "XML-completion" facilities). I use Tidy to validate
> the XML content. I use ASpell to catch spelling mistakes and
> fat-fingered typing.
> Since makeskel doesn't support update mode, I resolve additions and
> removals using a tool I cobbled together using TPasSrcAnalysis and
> TXMLDocument. Apparently a duplicate check needs to be added to it.
makeskel does support update, the Makefile of fpc docs has even a target for
it ?
It only does additions, though.
I suppose that deletions should also be easily added.
Michael.
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