Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-04 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Philip Olson wrote: > This topic was recently discussed but I'm not sure where we're at on it. As far as I can tell (being the one who wrote the proposal) we're waiting for someone to do it, or for my time to free up so that I can sit down and get started on it. -- Edward Z. Yang

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-04 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:44 AM, pedram salehpoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Edward Z. Yang > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Use configure.php. An outstanding project is to make all of PHP's >> documentation sources standalone valid XML files, but for now, you'll

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-04 Thread Philip Olson
> I can't seem to find information on how to make complete XML files of > the reference docs. The en/reference/*/functions/*.xml files are not > actually valid XML, as they don't have a DOCTYPE and don't define all > the custom XML entities they use. > > How do I transform these sources int

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-04 Thread pedram salehpoor
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Edward Z. Yang < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Dilts wrote: > > I can't seem to find information on how to make complete XML files of > > the reference docs. The en/reference/*/functions/*.xml files are not > > actually valid XML, as they don't have a DOCTYPE and

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-03 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Edward Z. Yang wrote: Ben Dilts wrote: I can't seem to find information on how to make complete XML files of the reference docs. The en/reference/*/functions/*.xml files are not actually valid XML, as they don't have a DOCTYPE and don't define all the custom XML en

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-03 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Ben Dilts wrote: > I can't seem to find information on how to make complete XML files of > the reference docs. The en/reference/*/functions/*.xml files are not > actually valid XML, as they don't have a DOCTYPE and don't define all > the custom XML entities they use. > > How do I transform these

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Dilts
I can't seem to find information on how to make complete XML files of the reference docs. The en/reference/*/functions/*.xml files are not actually valid XML, as they don't have a DOCTYPE and don't define all the custom XML entities they use. How do I transform these sources into complete, va

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Dilts
CVS access to the XML is just what I needed. Even though the XML may not be really trusted anymore, it's certain to be more stable in its general format than the HTML, so I'll work on something to scrape over that. Ben Dilts "Philip Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL P

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-03 Thread Philip Olson
On 3 Jun 2008, at 15:00, Ben Dilts wrote: CVS access to the XML is just what I needed. Even though the XML may not be really trusted anymore, it's certain to be more stable in its general format than the HTML, so I'll work on something to scrape over that. Just to clarify, our XML source

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Dilts
CVS access to the XML is just what I needed. Even though the XML may not be really trusted anymore, it's certain to be more stable in its general format than the HTML, so I'll work on something to scrape over that. Ben Dilts "Philip Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL P

Re: [PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-03 Thread Philip Olson
On 3 Jun 2008, at 11:31, Ben Dilts wrote: I maintain a PHP IDE, and scrape php.net's documentation periodically for information on built-in functions, classes, constants, etc. using regular expressions. The problem is, the actual HTML syntax changes periodically. Is there any way for me

[PHP-DOC] Machine-readable PHP documentation?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Dilts
I maintain a PHP IDE, and scrape php.net's documentation periodically for information on built-in functions, classes, constants, etc. using regular expressions. The problem is, the actual HTML syntax changes periodically. Is there any way for me to access the source data that is used to produc