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