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.TH "mdassembler" 1
.SH NAME
mdassembler \- Compile documentation for use in monodoc browser
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mdassembler
OPTIONS*
DIRS+
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fImdassembler\fR has been obsoleted by \fBmdoc\fR(1).  See the
\fBmdoc-assemble\fR(1) man page.
.PP
.I mdassembler
is a program that creates 
.I .tree
and 
.I .zip
files for use in the
.B monodoc
documentation browser.
.PP
The 
.I .tree
and
.I .zip
files are copied into monodoc's 
.I sources
directory, and reside with a 
.I .source
file which is used by 
.B monodoc
to specify where the documentation should be displayed.
The 
.I .source
file's 
.I /monodoc/source/@basefile
attribute specifies the filename prefix for the documentation files.  This
must be the same prefix as used with the 
.B \-\-out
parameter.
.PP
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I \-\-ecma
The documentation found within 
.I DIRS
is in the Mono ECMA documentation format.
See the 
.B Mono ECMA Documentation Format
section below.
.TP
.I \-\-ecmaspec
The documentation found within 
.I DIRS
is in the ECMA Specification documentation format.
See the 
.B Mono ECMA Specification Documentation Format
section below.
.TP
.I \-\-error
The documentation found within
.I DIRS
is in "error" format.
See the 
.B Error Documentation Format
section below.
.TP
.I \-\-help
Show program argument information.
.TP
.I \-\-man
The documentation found within
.I DIRS
is in man page format.
See the 
.B Man Page Documentation Format
section below.
.TP
.I \-o, \-\-out PREFIX
Specify the output file prefix.
.B mdassembler
creates the files
.I PREFIX.zip
and 
.I PREFIX.tree
\&.
.TP
.I \-\-simple
The documentation found within
.I DIRS
is in "simple" format.
See the 
.B Simple Documentation Format
section below.
.TP
.I \-\-xhtml, \-\-hb
The documentation found within
.I DIRS
is in XHTML format.
See the 
.B XHTML Documentation Format
section below.
.PP
.SH "FORMATS"
The following documentation formats are supported:
.SS Mono ECMA Documentation Format
An XML documentation format with one file per type.
.PP
See the \fBmdoc\fR(5) man page for more information.
.SS Mono ECMA Specification Documentation Format
This is not the format you're looking for.
.PP
This is the format used to represent the ECMA-334 (C#) standard within 
\fBmonodoc\fR.  It is not used to display class library documentation; 
for class library
documentation, use the
.B \-\-ecma
format.
.SS Error Documentation Format
Used to present detailed error messages, and is used in 
\fBmonodoc\fR's "C# Compiler Error Reference"
tree.  
.I DIRS
is not a directory, but is instead a configuration file, containing the XML:

.nf
    <ErrorProviderConfig>
        <FilesPath>../../mcs/errors</FilesPath>
        <Match>cs????*.cs</Match>
        <ErrorNumSubstringStart>2</ErrorNumSubstringStart>
        <ErrorNumSubstringLength>4</ErrorNumSubstringLength>
        <FriendlyFormatString>CS{0:0###}</FriendlyFormatString>
    </ErrorProviderConfig>
.fi

.I /ErrorProviderConfig/FilesPath
specifies where to look for files,
.I /ErrorProviderConfig/Match
specifies the filename pattern to look for within 
\fI/ErrorProviderConfig/FilesPath\fR,
.I /ErrorProviderConfig/ErrorNumSubstringStart
and
.I /ErrorProviderConfig/ErrorNumSubstringLength
control which portion of the filename is used as the error number, and
.I /ErrorProviderConfig/FriendlyFormatString
controls how the formatting/display of the node in the 
.B monodoc
tree.
.PP
For each file found, it is converted to HTML with C# syntax coloring applied.
.SS Simple Documentation Format
Converts text files into HTML by translating each newline into an HTML
.I <br>
element.
.SS Man Page Documentation Format
Converts man pages into HTML for display.
.SS XHTML Documentation Format
Copies the XHTML file as-is.
.SH EXAMPLES
To install your documenation for use with monodoc:
.TP
.I Create a PREFIX.source file
with the contents:
.nf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<monodoc>
  <source provider="FORMAT" basefile="PREFIX" path="PATH"/>
</monodoc>

.fi
where FORMAT is the documentation format contained within the 
.I PREFIX.tree
file, e.g. 
\fIecma\fR, or \fIsimple\fR.
.I PREFIX is the basename of the 
.I .tree
and
.I .zip
files that 
.B mdassembler
creates.
.I PATH
is the "path" in the monodoc tree that should contain the documentation.
See the 
.I @prefix@/lib/monodoc/monodoc.xml
file for a list of PATH values
(the
.I //node/@name
values).
.sp
See also: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/tools+libraries/tools/monodoc/generating-documentation/
.TP
.I Create your documentation
See also the
.BR monodocer (1)
man page, e.g.
.nf

	monodocer -assembly:foo.dll -path:foo/en

.fi
.TP
.I Assemble the documentation
.nf

	mdassembler --ecma foo/en PREFIX

.fi
Make sure that you use the same
.I PREFIX
here as you did above.
.TP
.I Install the documentation by using the command
.nf

	cp PREFIX.source PREFIX.tree PREFIX.zip \\
	`pkg-config monodoc --variable=sourcesdir`

.fi
(Note the backticks used in the 
.B pkg-config
command!)
This copies the
.I .source
,
.I .tree
, and 
.I .zip
files into the 
.B monodoc
.I sources
directory, which will allow
.B monodoc
to display the documentation.
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBmdcs2ecma\fR(1), 
\fBmdnormalizer\fR(1), 
\fBmdoc\fR(1), 
\fBmdoc-assemble\fR(1), 
\fBmdvalidator\fR(1), 
\fBmonodocer\fR(1), 
\fBmonodocs2html\fR(1)
.SH MAILING LISTS
.TP
Visit http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-docs-list for details.
.SH WEB SITE
See also: http://www.mono-project.com
and
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/tools+libraries/tools/mdassembler/