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mcs/class/monodoc/Monodoc/generator.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
+namespace Monodoc
+{
+	// All type of documents that a generator may find as input
+	public enum DocumentType {
+		EcmaXml, // Our main monodoc format
+		EcmaSpecXml,
+		Man,
+		AddinXml,
+		MonoBook, // This is mostly XHTML already, just need a tiny bit of processing
+		Html,
+		TocXml, // Used by help source displaying some kind of toc of the content they host
+		PlainText,
+		ErrorXml
+	}
+
+	/* This interface defines a set of transformation engine
+	 * that convert multiple documentation source to a single output format
+	 */
+	public interface IDocGenerator<TOutput>
+	{
+		/* This method is responsible for finding out the documentation type
+		 * for the given ID and use the right engine internally
+		 * The id can be accompanied by a context dictionary giving away extra
+		 * informtion to the renderer
+		 */
+		TOutput Generate (HelpSource hs, string internalId, Dictionary<string, string> context);
+	}
+}