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/*! \page perlmod Perl Module output format documentation
\addindex perlmod
<p>Since version 1.2.18, Doxygen can generate a new output format we
have called the "Perl Module output format". It has been
designed as an intermediate format that can be used to generate new
and customized output without having to modify the Doxygen source.
Therefore, its purpose is similar to the XML output format that can be
also generated by Doxygen. The XML output format is more standard,
but the Perl Module output format is possibly simpler and easier to
use.
<p>The Perl Module output format is still experimental at the moment
and could be changed in incompatible ways in future versions, although
this should not be very probable. It is also lacking some features of
other Doxygen backends. However, it can be already used to generate
useful output, as shown by the Perl Module-based LaTeX generator.
<p>Please report any bugs or problems you find in the Perl Module
backend or the Perl Module-based LaTeX generator to the
doxygen-develop mailing list. Suggestions are welcome as well.
\section using_perlmod_fmt Using the Perl Module output format.
<p>When the <b>GENERATE_PERLMOD</b> tag is enabled in the Doxyfile,
running Doxygen generates a number of files in the <b>perlmod/</b>
subdirectory of your output directory. These files are the following:
<ul>
<li><b>DoxyDocs.pm</b>. This is the Perl module that actually
contains the documentation, in the Perl Module format described
\ref doxydocs_format "below".
<li><b>DoxyModel.pm</b>. This Perl module describes the structure of
<b>DoxyDocs.pm</b>, independently of the actual documentation. See
\ref doxymodel_format "below" for details.
<li><b>doxyrules.make</b>. This file contains the make rules to build
and clean the files that are generated from the Doxyfile. Also
contains the paths to those files and other relevant information. This
file is intended to be included by your own Makefile.
<li><b>Makefile</b>. This is a simple Makefile including
<b>doxyrules.make</b>.
</ul>
<p>To make use of the documentation stored in DoxyDocs.pm you can use
one of the default Perl Module-based generators provided by Doxygen
(at the moment this includes the Perl Module-based LaTeX generator,
see \ref perlmod_latex "below") or write your own customized
generator. This should not be too hard if you have some knowledge of
Perl and it's the main purpose of including the Perl Module backend in
Doxygen. See \ref doxydocs_format "below" for details on how
to do this.
\section perlmod_latex Using the Perl Module-based LaTeX generator.
<p>The Perl Module-based LaTeX generator is pretty experimental and
incomplete at the moment, but you could find it useful nevertheless.
It can generate documentation for functions, typedefs and variables
within files and classes and can be customized quite a lot by
redefining TeX macros. However, there is still no documentation on
how to do this.
<p>Setting the <b>PERLMOD_LATEX</b> tag to <b>YES</b> in the Doxyfile
enables the creation of some additional files in the <b>perlmod/</b>
subdirectory of your output directory. These files contain the Perl
scripts and LaTeX code necessary to generate PDF and DVI output from
the Perl Module output, using PDFLaTeX and LaTeX respectively. Rules
to automate the use of these files are also added to
<b>doxyrules.make</b> and the <b>Makefile</b>.
<p>The additional generated files are the following:
<ul>
<li><b>doxylatex.pl</b>. This Perl script uses DoxyDocs.pm and
DoxyModel.pm to generate <b>doxydocs.tex</b>, a TeX file containing
the documentation in a format that can be accessed by LaTeX code. This
file is not directly LaTeXable.
<li><b>doxyformat.tex</b>. This file contains the LaTeX code that
transforms the documentation from doxydocs.tex into LaTeX text
suitable to be LaTeX'ed and presented to the user.
<li><b>doxylatex-template.pl</b>. This Perl script uses DoxyModel.pm
to generate <b>doxytemplate.tex</b>, a TeX file defining default
values for some macros. doxytemplate.tex is included by
doxyformat.tex to avoid the need of explicitly defining some macros.
<li><b>doxylatex.tex</b>. This is a very simple LaTeX document that
loads some packages and includes doxyformat.tex and doxydocs.tex. This
document is LaTeX'ed to produce the PDF and DVI documentation by the
rules added to <b>doxyrules.make</b>.
</ul>
\subsection pm_pdf_gen Simple creation of PDF and DVI output using the Perl Module-based LaTeX generator.
<p>To try this you need to have installed LaTeX, PDFLaTeX and the
packages used by <b>doxylatex.tex</b>.
<ol>
<li>Update your Doxyfile to the latest version using:
<pre>doxygen -u Doxyfile</pre>
<li>Set both <b>GENERATE_PERLMOD</b> and <b>PERLMOD_LATEX</b> tags to
YES in your Doxyfile.
<li>Run Doxygen on your Doxyfile:
<pre>doxygen Doxyfile</pre>
<li>A <b>perlmod/</b> subdirectory should have appeared in your output
directory. Enter the <b>perlmod/</b> subdirectory and run:
<pre>make pdf</pre>
<p>This should generate a <b>doxylatex.pdf</b> with the documentation
in PDF format.
<li>Run:
<pre>make dvi</pre>
<p>This should generate a <b>doxylatex.dvi</b> with the documentation
in DVI format.
</ol>
\section doxydocs_format Perl Module documentation format.
<p>The Perl Module documentation generated by Doxygen is stored in
<b>DoxyDocs.pm</b>. This is a very simple Perl module that contains
only two statements: an assigment to the variable <b>$doxydocs</b> and
the customary <b>1;</b> statement which usually ends Perl modules.
The documentation is stored in the variable <b>$doxydocs</b>, which
can then be accessed by a Perl script using <b>DoxyDocs.pm</b>.
<p><b>$doxydocs</b> contains a tree-like structure composed of three
types of nodes: strings, hashes and lists.
<ul>
<li><b>Strings</b>. These are normal Perl strings. They can be of
any length can contain any character. Their semantics depends on
their location within the tree. This type of node has no children.
<li><b>Hashes</b>. These are references to anonymous Perl hashes. A
hash can have multiple fields, each with a different key. The value
of a hash field can be a string, a hash or a list, and its semantics
depends on the key of the hash field and the location of the hash
within the tree. The values of the hash fields are the children of
the node.
<li><b>Lists</b>. These are references to anonymous Perl lists. A
list has an undefined number of elements, which are the children of
the node. Each element has the same type (string, hash or list) and
the same semantics, depending on the location of the list within the
tree.
</ul>
<p>As you can see, the documentation contained in <b>$doxydocs</b>
does not present any special impediment to be processed by a simple
Perl script. To be able to generate meaningful output using the
documentation contained in <b>$doxydocs</b> you'll probably need to
know the semantics of the nodes of the documentation tree, which we
present in \ref perlmod_tree "this page".
\section doxymodel_format Data structure describing the Perl Module documentation tree.
<p>You might be interested in processing the documentation contained
in <b>DoxyDocs.pm</b> without needing to take into account the
semantics of each node of the documentation tree. For this purpose,
Doxygen generates a <b>DoxyModel.pm</b> file which contains a data
structure describing the type and children of each node in the
documentation tree.
<p>The rest of this section is to be written yet, but in the meantime
you can look at the Perl scripts generated by Doxygen (such as
<b>doxylatex.pl</b> or <b>doxytemplate-latex.pl</b>) to get an idea on
how to use <b>DoxyModel.pm</b>.
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