JDK-4124050 : Request option to omit header and footer navigation tables
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javadoc(tool)
  • Affected Version: 1.2.0
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 1998-03-30
  • Updated: 2014-05-05
  • Resolved: 1998-04-14
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-4034052 - stddoclet: Restore the -doctype MIF option
Description
I'm using the latest javadoc that has complicated tables at the top and bottom
of each generated file giving various navigation links.  (NEXT, PREV etc).
These tables are inappropriate when printing the API docs to file (eg PDF)
and it is getting increasing dificult to filter them out programmatically
(eg with sed). It would be nice to have an option on the standard doclet
to omit them.
Comments
EVALUATION We are planning to do something like this in May -- it's the MIF doclet. When you run javadoc with this doclet, it produces MIF files that can be opened in Framemaker. It will not include nav bars. We plan for the output to look similar to chapter 20-22 in the JLS. That is, members will be numbered and there will be visible cross-references in place of links. Guy Steele will use it to generate those three chapters from the doc comments, so that the doc comments can be the master. Atul Dambalkar is assigned to do this work. -Doug 4/6/98 From jjg@shorter Mon Apr 6 09:58:05 1998 This sounds way cool, and just what I want in fact. If it helps, I have some embryonic Java API for generating MIF. If someone has started work on the doclet, it probably won't be relevant; if they haven't, it might help provide a starting point. I did the classes as part of the HTML-to-MIF converter, which never went anywhere. -- Jon I am closing this out as dupe of 4034052, the MIF doclet. doug.kramer@Eng 1998-04-13
13-04-1998