Question

I am looking for a good tool or library that takes a C/Cpp/header file and generates xml for the functions in that file.

So Perhaps

float foo(int bar, char* str);

would turn into

<function name="foo" returntype="float">
    <params>
        <param dataType="int">bar</param>
        <param dataType="char*">str</param>
    </params>
</function>

This is likely a stupid question, I looked through visual studio, found some things on C Sharp and VB. Sadly, Googling C++/C and XML in the same line turns up almost entirely posts on C++ Generating XML from other files.

I all else fails I can write my own, just wondering if there was a good tool out there that I had not heard of.

Answer 1

Take a look at Doxygen.

Among other things, it can generate XML. IIRC you can configure Doxygen to produce XML even for functions without specially formatted comments, if that’s what you want.