Not solving your problem here, but wouldn't it be more consistent to use a
literate programming tool for IDL? After all, your IDL component may or may
not be implemented in O'CaML...

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
> [mailto:owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr]De la part de
> matthieu.dubuget@libertysurf.fr
> Envoyé : mercredi 30 juillet 2003 08:43
> À : caml-list
> Objet : [Caml-list] Re: [Caml-list] Question/Feature request about
> Camlidl andcomments]
>
>
> >Depending on what you base your ocamldoc generation,
> >use either ml or mli. Since i think mli is the best
> >place to do it i will use it :
>
> >quote(mli,"(** This is a ocamldoc comment *)");
>
> >int my_function ( [string] const char * msg );
>
> >Simple !
>
> I should have explained in detail what I was trying to do.
>
> I did an attempt to do what you are suggesting. The problem
> is that it seems difficult to control where the comments
> will appear in the generated mli files.
>
> For example, if I try
> quote(mli,"** This is a module *)"); at the very beginning
> of my idl file in order to generate a comment to be
> associated with the whole module, the string appears between
> types definitions and functions definitions, which is not
> what we need to conform to ocamldoc. An other point was that
> I wanted to comment also the elements of enums.
>
> I may have the time to look at camlidl source code during my
> holidays...
>
> Salutations
>
> Matthieu Dubuget
>
>
>
>
>
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