Reading function names and their signatures and writing them in XML format

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I want to read a .h and .cpp file and get the function names and their signatures
and write them in XML format.Can you please tell me wheter its possible or not and how?All coding has to be done in C++.

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Posted 23-Oct-11 7:39am

Abhinay Kumar

Updated 23-Oct-11 9:26am

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Maximilien · Answer 1 · 2011-10-23T10:14:00

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Most things like that are done with a parser, or, heck, even by pre-processing the code with a preprocessor/compiler.; and can be quite complex.

have a look at doxygen, gcc-xml, cproto, ....

Good luck.

Posted 23-Oct-11 10:14am

Maximilien

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Espen Harlinn 23-Oct-11 17:34pm

doxygen even writes out the xml, my 5

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2011-10-23T09:15:00

Of course it is possible, since these files are text and can be read and interpreted quite easily. The difficulty will be in recognising functions and ignoring everything else. There may well be some open source utilities that can help you with this; try a Google search to see what you can find.