Support for ValidateSetAttribute and AliasAttribute in XML output

[jalliot]

Hello Vadims,

It seems like the possible values from the ValidateSetAttribute and potential parameters aliases (even though they seem to be correctly retrieved in the tool's UI) are not used when the XML help file is generated. For the ValidateSet for instance, this results in the syntax not showing the possible values and instead just showing [String]

[Crypt32]

ValidateSetAttribute and aliases are not parts of MAML help, they are parts of command metadata. Syntax is generated by PowerShell on-fly automatically.

[jalliot]

If you look at C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\en-US\Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility.dll-help.xml for instance, lines 33-40 (from a Win8.1 machine with WMF5 installed, that may move in other versions) you can find an example of the possible values for a parameter, using a command:parameterValueGroup tag. Note that this comes from the syntax section but it seems also supported in the parameters section.

As for aliases, you can look at line 27 for instance where they seem to use the aliases qualifier.

[Crypt32]

I can't find the most recent MAML schema.

[jalliot]

Me neither... Can't find any working link or reference on Technet/MSDN.