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@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ jobs:
     name: Soundness
     uses: swiftlang/github-workflows/.github/workflows/soundness.yml@main
     with:
-      docs_check_enabled: false  # bug: https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser/issues/704
       format_check_enabled: false  # bug: https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser/issues/702
       license_header_check_enabled: false  # feature: https://github.com/swiftlang/github-workflows/issues/78
       license_header_check_project_name: "Swift Argument Parser"  # bug: https://github.com/swiftlang/github-workflows/issues/76

Sources/ArgumentParser/Documentation.docc/Articles/CustomizingCommandHelp.md

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ hello!
 ...
 ```
 
-## Modifying the Help Flag Names
+### Modifying the Help Flag Names
 
 Users can see the help screen for a command by passing either the `-h` or the `--help` flag, by default. If you need to use one of those flags for another purpose, you can provide alternative names when configuring a root command.
 
@@ -123,11 +123,11 @@ OPTIONS:
   -?, --help              Show help information.
 ```
 
-## Hiding Commands
+### Hiding Commands
 
 You may not want to show every one of your command as part of your command-line interface. To render a command invisible (but still usable), pass `shouldDisplay: false` to the ``CommandConfiguration`` initializer.
 
-## Generating Help Text Programmatically
+### Generating Help Text Programmatically
 
 The help screen is automatically shown to users when they call your command with the help flag. You can generate the same text from within your program by calling the `helpMessage()` method.
 

Sources/ArgumentParser/Documentation.docc/Articles/CustomizingHelp.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS:
   -h, --help              Show help information.
 ```
 
-## Customizing Help for Arguments
+### Customizing Help for Arguments
 
 For more control over the help text, pass an ``ArgumentHelp`` instance instead of a string literal. The `ArgumentHelp` type can include an abstract (which is what the string literal becomes), a discussion, a value name to use in the usage string, and a visibility level for that argument.
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS:
   -h, --help              Show help information.
 ```
 
-## Enumerating Possible Values
+### Enumerating Possible Values
 
 When an argument or option has a fixed set of possible values, listing these values in the help screen can simplify use of your tool. You can customize the displayed set of values for custom ``ExpressibleByArgument`` types by implementing ``ExpressibleByArgument/allValueStrings``. Despite the name, ``ExpressibleByArgument/allValueStrings`` does _not_ need to be an exhaustive list of possible values.
 
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ OPTIONS:
   -h, --help              Show help information.
 ```
 
-### Deriving Possible Values
+#### Deriving Possible Values
 
-ExpressibleByArgument types that conform to ``CaseIterable`` do not need to manually specify ``ExpressibleByArgument/allValueStrings``. Instead, a list of possible values is derived from the type's cases, as in this updated example:
+ExpressibleByArgument types that conform to `CaseIterable` do not need to manually specify ``ExpressibleByArgument/allValueStrings``. Instead, a list of possible values is derived from the type's cases, as in this updated example:
 
 ```swift
 enum Fruit: String, CaseIterable, ExpressibleByArgument {
@@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ OPTIONS:
   -h, --help              Show help information.
 ```
 
-For an ``ExpressibleByArgument`` and ``CaseIterable`` type with many cases, you may still want to implement ``ExpressibleByArgument/allValueStrings`` to avoid an overly long list of values appearing in the help screen. For these types it is recommended to include the most common possible values.
+For an ``ExpressibleByArgument`` and `CaseIterable` type with many cases, you may still want to implement ``ExpressibleByArgument/allValueStrings`` to avoid an overly long list of values appearing in the help screen. For these types it is recommended to include the most common possible values.
 
-## Controlling Argument Visibility
+### Controlling Argument Visibility
 
 You can specify the visibility of any argument, option, or flag.
 
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ OPTIONS:
   -h, --help              Show help information.
 ```
 
-## Grouping Arguments in the Help Screen
+### Grouping Arguments in the Help Screen
 
 When you provide a title in an `@OptionGroup` declaration, that type's  properties are grouped together under your title in the help screen. For example, this command bundles similar arguments together under a  "Build Options" title:
 

Sources/ArgumentParser/Documentation.docc/Articles/DeclaringArguments.md

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Your lucky numbers are:
 1 2 3
 ```
 
-## Customizing option and flag names
+### Customizing option and flag names
 
 By default, options and flags derive the name that you use on the command line from the name of the property, such as `--count` and `--index`. Camel-case names are converted to lowercase with hyphen-separated words, like `--strip-whitespace`.
 
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ struct Example: ParsableCommand {
 **Note:** You can also pass `withSingleDash: true` to `.customLong` to create a single-dash flag or option, such as `-verbose`. Use this name specification only when necessary, such as when migrating a legacy command-line interface. Using long names with a single-dash prefix can lead to ambiguity with combined short names: it may not be obvious whether `-file` is a single option or the combination of the four short options `-f`, `-i`, `-l`, and `-e`.
 
 
-## Parsing custom types
+### Parsing custom types
 
 Arguments and options can be parsed from any type that conforms to the ``ExpressibleByArgument`` protocol. Standard library integer and floating-point types, strings, and Booleans all conform to `ExpressibleByArgument`.
 
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ struct Example: ParsableCommand {
 
 Throw an error from the `transform` function to indicate that the user provided an invalid value for that type. See <doc:Validation> for more about customizing `transform` function errors.
 
-## Using flag inversions, enumerations, and counts
+### Using flag inversions, enumerations, and counts
 
 Flags are most frequently used for `Bool` properties. You can generate a `true`/`false` pair of flags by specifying a flag inversion:
 
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ Verbosity level: 4
 ```
 
 
-## Specifying default values
+### Specifying default values
 
 You can specify default values for almost all supported argument, option, and flag types using normal property initialization syntax:
 
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ If a default is not specified, the user must provide a value for that argument/o
 You must also always specify a default of `false` for a non-optional `Bool` flag, as in the example above. This makes the behavior consistent with both normal Swift properties (which either must be explicitly initialized or optional to initialize a `struct`/`class` containing them) and the other property types.
 
 
-## Specifying a parsing strategy
+### Specifying a parsing strategy
 
 When parsing a list of command-line inputs, `ArgumentParser` distinguishes between dash-prefixed keys and un-prefixed values. When looking for the value for a key, only an un-prefixed value will be selected by default.
 
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ Usage: example [--verbose] --name <name> [<file>]
 
 Parsing options as arrays is similar — only adjacent key-value pairs are recognized by default.
 
-### Alternative single-value parsing strategies
+#### Alternative single-value parsing strategies
 
 You can change this behavior by providing a different parsing strategy in the `@Option` initializer. **Be careful when selecting any of the alternative parsing strategies** — they may lead your command-line tool to have unexpected behavior for users!
 
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ The `.scanningForValue` strategy, on the other hand, looks ahead in the list of
 Verbose: true, name: Tomás, file: none
 ```
 
-### Alternative array parsing strategies
+#### Alternative array parsing strategies
 
 The default strategy for parsing options as arrays is to read each value from a key-value pair. For example, this command expects zero or more input file names:
 
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ Verbose: true, files: ["file1.swift", "file2.swift"]
 Verbose: false, files: ["file1.swift", "file2.swift", "--verbose"]
 ```
 
-### Alternative positional argument parsing strategies
+#### Alternative positional argument parsing strategies
 
 The default strategy for parsing arrays of positional arguments is to ignore  all dash-prefixed command-line inputs. For example, this command accepts a `--verbose` flag and a list of file names as positional arguments:
 
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ Verbose: true, files: ["file1.swift", "file2.swift", "--other"]
 Verbose: false, files: ["--", "--verbose", "file1.swift", "file2.swift", "--other"]
 ```
 
-### Ignoring unknown arguments
+#### Ignoring unknown arguments
 
 Different versions of a CLI tool may have full or partial sets of supported flags and options.
 

Sources/ArgumentParser/Documentation.docc/Articles/ExperimentalFeatures.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Command-line programs built using `ArgumentParser` may include some built-in exp
 
 If you have any feedback on experimental features, please [open a GitHub issue][issue].
 
-## List of Experimental Features
+### List of Experimental Features
 
 | Name | Description | related PRs | Version |
 | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- |

Sources/ArgumentParser/Documentation.docc/Articles/GettingStarted.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Learn to set up and customize a simple command-line tool.
 
 This guide walks through building an example command. You'll learn about the different tools that `ArgumentParser` provides for defining a command's options, customizing the interface, and providing help text for your user.
 
-## Adding ArgumentParser as a Dependency
+### Adding ArgumentParser as a Dependency
 
 Let's write a tool called `count` that reads an input file, counts the words, and writes the result to an output file.
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ let package = Package(
 )
 ```
 
-## Building Our First Command
+### Building Our First Command
 
 Once we've built the `count` tool, we'll be able to run it like this:
 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Finally, the `Count` command is designated as the program's entry point by apply
 
 > Note: The Swift compiler uses either the type marked with `@main` or a `main.swift` file as the entry point for an executable program. You can use either one, but not both — rename your `main.swift` file to the name of the command when you add `@main`. In this case, rename the file to `Count.swift`.   
 
-## Working with Named Options
+### Working with Named Options
 
 Our `count` tool may have a usability problem — it's not immediately clear whether a user should provide the input file first, or the output file. Instead of using positional arguments for our two inputs, let's specify that they should be labeled options:
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ This interface has a trade-off for the users of our `count` tool: With `@Argumen
 Counting words in 'readme.md' and writing the result into 'readme.counts'.
 ```
 
-## Adding a Flag
+### Adding a Flag
 
 Next, we want to add a `--verbose` flag to our tool, and only print the message if the user specifies that option:
 
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ struct Count: ParsableCommand {
 The `@Flag` property wrapper denotes a command-line input that looks like `--name`, deriving its name from the name of your property. Flags are most frequently used for Boolean values, like the `verbose` property here.
 
 
-## Using Custom Names
+### Using Custom Names
 
 We can customize the names of our options and add an alternative to the `verbose` flag so that users can specify `-v` instead of `--verbose`. The new interface will look like this:
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ struct Count: ParsableCommand {
 
 The default name specification is `.long`, which uses a property's name with a two-dash prefix. `.short` uses only the first letter of a property's name with a single-dash prefix, and allows combining groups of short options. You can specify custom short and long names with the `.customShort(_:)` and `.customLong(_:)` methods, respectively, or use the combined `.shortAndLong` property to specify the common case of both the short and long derived names.
 
-## Providing Help
+### Providing Help
 
 `ArgumentParser` automatically generates help for any command when a user provides the `-h` or `--help` flags:
 
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ OPTIONS:
 
 ```
 
-## The Complete Utility
+### The Complete Utility
 
 As promised, here's the complete `count` command, for your experimentation:
 
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ struct RuntimeError: Error, CustomStringConvertible {
 ```
 
 
-## Next Steps … Swift concurrency
+### Next Steps … Swift concurrency
 
 `ArgumentParser` supports Swift concurrency, notably `async` renditions of `run`. If you use `async` rendition of `run`, conform to `AsyncParsableCommand` instead of `ParsableCommand`.
 

Sources/ArgumentParser/Documentation.docc/Articles/ManualParsing.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Provide your own array of command-line inputs or work directly with parsed comma
 
 For most programs, denoting the root command type as `@main` is all that's necessary. As the program's entry point, that type parses the command-line arguments to find the correct command from your tree of nested subcommands, instantiates and validates the result, and executes the chosen command. For more control, however, you can perform each of those steps manually.
 
-## Parsing Arguments
+### Parsing Arguments
 
 For simple Swift scripts, and for those who prefer a straight-down-the-left-edge-of-the-screen scripting style, you can define a single ``ParsableArguments`` type to parse explicitly from the command-line arguments.
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ let chosen = options.elements
 print(chosen.joined(separator: "\n"))
 ```
 
-## Parsing Commands
+### Parsing Commands
 
 Manually parsing commands is a little more complex than parsing a simple `ParsableArguments` type. The result of parsing from a tree of subcommands may be of a different type than the root of the tree, so the static ``ParsableCommand/parseAsRoot(_:)`` method returns a type-erased ``ParsableCommand``.
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ You chose to do something else.
 1050
 ```
 
-## Providing Command-Line Input
+### Providing Command-Line Input
 
 All of the parsing methods — `parse()`, `parseOrExit()`, and `parseAsRoot()` — can optionally take an array of command-line inputs as an argument. You can use this capability to test your commands, to perform pre-parse filtering of the command-line arguments, or to manually execute commands from within the same or another target.
 

Sources/ArgumentParser/Documentation.docc/Articles/Validation.md

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ howdy
 hey
 ```
 
-## Handling Post-Validation Errors
+### Handling Post-Validation Errors
 
 The ``ValidationError`` type is a special `ArgumentParser` error — a validation error's message is always accompanied by an appropriate usage string. You can throw other errors, from either the `validate()` or `run()` method to indicate that something has gone wrong that isn't validation-specific. Errors that conform to `CustomStringConvertible` or `LocalizedError` provide the best experience for users.
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct Example: ParsableCommand {
 }
 ```
 
-## Handling Transform Errors
+### Handling Transform Errors
 
 During argument and option parsing, you can use a closure to transform the command line strings to custom types. If this transformation fails, you can throw a `ValidationError`; its `message` property will be displayed to the user.
 

Sources/ArgumentParser/Documentation.docc/Extensions/CommandConfiguration.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 ### Creating a Configuration
 
-- ``init(commandName:abstract:usage:discussion:version:shouldDisplay:subcommands:defaultSubcommand:helpNames:aliases:)``
+- ``init(commandName:abstract:usage:discussion:version:shouldDisplay:subcommands:groupedSubcommands:defaultSubcommand:helpNames:aliases:)``
 
 ### Customizing the Help Screen
 

Sources/ArgumentParser/Parsable Properties/Argument.swift

@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ extension Argument {
   /// Creates a property that reads an array from zero or more arguments.
   ///
   /// - Parameters:
-  ///   - initial: A default value to use for this property.
+  ///   - wrappedValue: A default value to use for this property.
   ///   - parsingStrategy: The behavior to use when parsing multiple values from
   ///     the command-line arguments.
   ///   - help: Information about how to use this argument.

Sources/ArgumentParser/Parsable Properties/Errors.swift

@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ public struct CleanExit: Error, CustomStringConvertible {
   ///
   /// - Parameter command: The command type to offer help for, if different
   ///   from the root command.
-  public static func helpRequest(_ type: ParsableCommand.Type? = nil) -> CleanExit {
-    self.init(base: .helpRequest(type))
+  public static func helpRequest(_ command: ParsableCommand.Type? = nil) -> CleanExit {
+    self.init(base: .helpRequest(command))
   }
 
   /// Treat this error as a clean exit with the given message.

Sources/ArgumentParser/Parsable Properties/Flag.swift

@@ -345,7 +345,6 @@ extension Flag where Value == Bool {
   ///
   /// - Parameters:
   ///   - name: A specification for what names are allowed for this flag.
-  ///   - wrappedValue: A default value to use for this property, provided implicitly by the compiler during property wrapper initialization.
   ///   - inversion: The method for converting this flag's name into an on/off pair.
   ///   - exclusivity: The behavior to use when an on/off pair of flags is specified.
   ///   - help: Information about how to use this flag.
@@ -580,7 +579,8 @@ extension Flag {
   /// This property has an empty array as its default value.
   ///
   /// - Parameters:
-  ///   - name: A specification for what names are allowed for this flag.
+  ///   - wrappedValue: A default value to use for this property, provided
+  //      implicitly by the compiler during property wrapper initialization.
   ///   - help: Information about how to use this flag.
   public init<Element>(
     wrappedValue: [Element],

Sources/ArgumentParser/Parsable Properties/Option.swift

@@ -706,8 +706,6 @@ extension Option {
   ///   - help: Information about how to use this option.
   ///   - completion: The type of command-line completion provided for this
   ///     option.
-  ///   - transform: A closure that converts a string into this property's
-  ///     element type, or else throws an error.
   public init<T>(
     wrappedValue: Array<T>,
     name: NameSpecification = .long,

Sources/ArgumentParser/Parsable Types/ParsableCommand.swift

@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ extension ParsableCommand {
   /// Returns the usage text for the given subcommand of this command.
   ///
   /// - Parameters:
+  ///   - subcommand: The subcommand to generate the help screen for.
+  ///     `subcommand` must be declared in the subcommand tree of this
+  ///     command.
   ///   - includeHidden: Include hidden help information in the generated
   ///     message.
   /// - Returns: The usage text for this type.