Writing RDFLib Documentation

The docs are generated with Sphinx.

Sphinx makes it very easy to pull in doc-strings from modules, classes, methods, etc. When writing doc-strings, special reST fields can be used to annotate parameters, return-types, etc. This make for pretty API docs:

http://sphinx-doc.org/domains.html?highlight=param#info-field-lists

Building

To build you must have the sphinx package installed:

pip install sphinx

Then you can do:

python setup.py build_sphinx

The docs will be generated in build/sphinx/html/

API Docs

API Docs are automatically generated with sphinx-apidoc:

sphinx-apidoc -f -d 10 -o docs/apidocs/ rdflib examples

(then rdflib.rst was tweaked manually to not include all convenience imports that are directly in the rdflib/__init__.py)

Tables

The tables in plugin_*.rst were generated with plugintable.py