<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.23562"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi all</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I am annotating my XML dbus definition files and have many methods/properties/signals using the same parameter names (for example "outputstate"). Instead of copy-n-pasting every instance of the descriptive text for a method parameter, I would like to use some form of macro/substitution system.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have seen some more generic examples of this on the web for XML; but nothing specifically for dbus definitions. Indeed, the examples I have tried do not appear to work.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Does the gdbus-codegen application understand any particular form of macro/substitution?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Many thanks in advance,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Gary</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=175403113-09122016><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></BODY></HTML>