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<a name="BCICDGCE" title="Major Features" turn_anchor="no"></a><br><h2>Major Features</h2>
<p>HeaderDoc 8 has a number of new features.</p>
<ul class="content_text"><li class="content_text">Function/data
type groupings</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Declaration syntax coloring</li><br>
<li class="content_text">New tagless syntax<p><tt></tt></p></li><br>
<li class="content_text">Support for headerdoc tags embedded in declarations</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Sopport for <li class="content_text">Automatic linking of data types in declarations</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Improved C++ support (namespace/template/access)</li><br>
<li class="content_text">gatherHeaderdoc is now template-based</li><br>
<li class="content_text">PHP support (and a bunch of other languages) now included
without patching</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Support for linking to other methods/data types within the
same file</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Comment stripper</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Support for exceptions</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Now warns if tagged parameters don’t match declaration</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Optional warning if parameters are not tagged</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Improved warnings for other invalid content</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Man page output path (via XML)</li><br>
<li class="content_text">DTD for output validation</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Translation of HTML to XHTML using xmllint when using XML
output</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Nested class handling</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Customizable date format</li><br>
<li class="content_text">C pseudoclass support (<tt>typedef struct</tt>)</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Better nested class support.</li><br>
<li class="content_text">C++ constructors/destructors now sorted first in the list
of class methods.</li><br>
<li class="content_text">@ignore—allows you to remove matching tokens from declarations</li><br>
<li class="content_text">“Unsorted” flag</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Summary function/method lists (mini-TOC)</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Automated detection of numbered lists</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Automatic handling of availability macros</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Improved overall appearance</li><br>
<li class="content_text">Beginnings of a regression test suite</li><br></ul>
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