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- From: paul@cs.keele.ac.uk (Paul Singleton)
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- Subject: browsing C sources as a Web?
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 15:18:30 GMT
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- Has anyone come across, or is anyone in the process of building, a
- C source browser using WWW technology?
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- I envisage the conversion of C source files, header files and
- manual pages into HTML documents where cross-references (e.g. the
- use of identifiers, types, etc) are represented as hypertext links
- to the appropriate definition.
-
- I appreciate that there are dedicated repositories and program
- development environments which support this sort of dependency
- browsing, but I'm not aware of one using HTML.
-
- [I put together a simple tool for browsing Prolog programs
- as HTML documents, but the interdependencies in Prolog are
- extremely simple.]
-
- I appreciate some of the problems of parsing "C" source containing
- preprocessor constructs (there is no tractable formal syntax for
- this mixture of languages) but it is worth solving incompletely,
- whatever the absolutists think.
-
- Paul
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