> On Oct 24, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Robert Widmann <devteam.cod...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Or libSyntax!
If it doesn’t do comments yet… it certainly should!
- Doug
>
> ~Robert Widmann
>
>> On Oct 24, 2017, at 4:06 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-dev
>> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 23, 2017, at 11:27 AM, George King via swift-dev
>>> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, I’m curious about the swiftdoc format. I’ve looked through the swift
>>> codebase and have been unable to find either documentation about it or the
>>> relevant source code. Could somebody point me in the right direction? I’m
>>> thinking about building a swift documentation viewer and want to figure out
>>> if I would have to extract docs from source by hand, or if I can leverage
>>> the compiler in some way to do the parsing and document syntax rendering.
>>
>>
>> It’s a serialized format, emitted by Serialization::writeDocToStream(), here:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/lib/Serialization/Serialization.cpp#L4656-L4678
>>
>> It would be a pain to write another client to read the binary format. Better
>> would be to use SourceKit to walk the compiler’s AST and ask for the
>> documentation for the various declarations.
>>
>> - Doug
>>
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