Make NDoc compile the code examples contained in your documentation using NLiterate

// The MIT License
// Copyright (c) 2004 Jonathan de Halleux
//
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using System;
using System.Xml;
using System.Reflection;

namespace NLiterate.Cons
{
class MainClass
{
	public static void Main(string[] args)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("-- loading file ---");

		try
		{
			Console.WriteLine("NLiterate, code examples compiler");
			Console.WriteLine("Author: Jonathan de Halleux, dehalleux@pelikhan.com, 2004");
			Console.WriteLine("---------------------------------------------------");
			Console.WriteLine();
			Console.WriteLine("Call convention: nliterate xmldoc.xml");
			Console.WriteLine("where xmldoc.xml is the XML generated documentation file");
			Console.WriteLine();
			Console.WriteLine("In your documentation, create reference using {[id blabla]} pattern:");
			Console.WriteLine("where id must be a valid id of the code section to substiture");
			Console.WriteLine();

			XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
			doc.Load(args[0]);

			// get assembly name
			XmlElement an = (XmlElement)doc.SelectSingleNode("doc/assembly/name");
			if (an==null)
				throw new ArgumentException("doc/assembly/name missing from the XML file");


			CodeSnippetCollection snippets = new CodeSnippetCollection();
			CodeSnippet.FromXml(
				an.InnerText+".dll",
				doc,
				snippets);
			
			CodeSnippetCompiler comp = new CodeSnippetCompiler();
			comp.BeginCompile+=new CodeSnippetEventHandler(comp_BeginCompile);
			comp.CompileFailure+=new CodeSnippetEventHandler(comp_CompileFailure);
			comp.CompileSuccess+=new CodeSnippetEventHandler(comp_CompileSuccess);
			foreach(CodeSnippet snippet in snippets)
			{
				comp.Process(snippet);
			}			
		}
		catch(Exception ex)
		{
			Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
		}
	}

	private static void comp_BeginCompile(object sender, CodeSnippetEventArgs e)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("[Compiling snippet]\n{0}",e.Snippet.ToString());
	}

	private static void comp_CompileFailure(object sender, CodeSnippetEventArgs e)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("[Compilation failed]\n{0}",e.Snippet.Results.ToString());
	}

	private static void comp_CompileSuccess(object sender, CodeSnippetEventArgs e)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("[Compilation success]");
	}
}
}