---
name: "kayadoc2man"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kaya"
version: "0.4.4-6.2"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kayadoc2man"
---

# kayadoc2man(1)

Automatic man pages for Kaya modules

## NAME

kayadoc2man - Automatic man pages for Kaya modules

## SYNOPSIS

**kayadoc2man** *XMLFILE \[DONEFILE\] \[LICENSEFILE\]*

## DESCRIPTION

**kayadoc2man** creates a man page for every function and data type from an .xml file generated with the -xmldocs option of **[kayac(1)](/kayac/1.md)**. Pass it the path to the XML documentation file to parse, and optionally (to ease Makefile writing) the name of a file to create when processing is complete. The third option allows you to specify your own author and license information (if this is omitted,  **kayadoc2man** will assume that it is generating documentation for the Kaya standard library). If you want to specify the third option but not the second, you can of course use **/dev/null** for the  *DONEFILE* on most systems.

Prior to Kaya 0.3.0 this utility was called xml2man

## OBTAINING

The latest release of Kaya can be obtained from \<http://kayalang.org/download\>.

Development versions can be obtained using **[darcs(1)](/darcs/1.md)** from \<http://kayalang.org/darcs/\>

## BUGS

Please report bugs found to \<kaya@kayalang.org\>

## LICENSE

**kayadoc2man** is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

## SEE ALSO

**[man(1)](/man/1.md)** **[kayac(1)](/kayac/1.md)**