diff --git a/BaseLib/FileTools.cpp b/BaseLib/FileTools.cpp
index 0e8ce3155ffd275301c27975e11e2a1818ac14a9..a545e45b3b6308b4409f1bafbfe798562e2be7d9 100644
--- a/BaseLib/FileTools.cpp
+++ b/BaseLib/FileTools.cpp
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 /**
+ * \file
+ * \author Lars Bilke
+ * \date   Apr. 2010
+ * \brief Filename manipulation routines implementation.
+ *
+ * \copyright
  * Copyright (c) 2012, OpenGeoSys Community (http://www.opengeosys.org)
  *            Distributed under a Modified BSD License.
  *              See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or
  *              http://www.opengeosys.org/project/license
  *
- *
- * \file FileTools.cpp
- *
- * Created on 2010-04-26 by Lars Bilke
- *
  */
 
 #include "FileTools.h"
@@ -18,7 +19,6 @@
 
 namespace BaseLib
 {
-
 /**
  * Returns true if given file exists. From http://www.techbytes.ca/techbyte103.html
  */
@@ -32,13 +32,10 @@ bool IsFileExisting(const std::string &strFilename)
 	intStat = stat(strFilename.c_str(),&stFileInfo);
 
 	if(intStat == 0)
-	{
 		// We were able to get the file attributes
 		// so the file obviously exists.
 		blnReturn = true;
-	}
 	else
-	{
 		// We were not able to get the file attributes.
 		// This may mean that we don't have permission to
 		// access the folder which contains this file. If you
@@ -46,9 +43,8 @@ bool IsFileExisting(const std::string &strFilename)
 		// return values of stat which will give you
 		// more details on why stat failed.
 		blnReturn = false;
-	}
 
-	return(blnReturn);
+	return blnReturn;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -56,8 +52,8 @@ bool IsFileExisting(const std::string &strFilename)
  */
 void truncateFile( std::string const& filename)
 {
-    std::ofstream ofs(filename.c_str(), std::ios_base::trunc);
-    ofs.close();
+	std::ofstream ofs(filename.c_str(), std::ios_base::trunc);
+	ofs.close();
 }
 
 /** Finds the position of last file path separator.
@@ -93,7 +89,7 @@ std::string dropFileExtension(std::string const& filename)
 std::string extractBaseName(std::string const& pathname)
 {
 	const size_t p = findLastPathSeparator(pathname);
-	return pathname.substr(p+1);
+	return pathname.substr(p + 1);
 }
 
 std::string extractBaseNameWithoutExtension(std::string const& pathname)
@@ -113,14 +109,14 @@ std::string getFileExtension(const std::string &path)
 
 bool hasFileExtension(std::string const& extension, std::string const& filename)
 {
-	std::string ext = stringToUpper(extension);	// Copy for modification.
+	std::string ext = stringToUpper(extension); // Copy for modification.
 	std::string file_ext = stringToUpper(getFileExtension(filename));
 
 	return ext == file_ext;
 }
 
 std::string copyPathToFileName(const std::string &file_name,
-    const std::string &source)
+                               const std::string &source)
 {
 	// check if file_name already contains a full path
 	const size_t pos = findLastPathSeparator(file_name);
@@ -135,6 +131,4 @@ std::string extractPath(std::string const& pathname)
 	const size_t pos = findLastPathSeparator(pathname);
 	return pathname.substr(0, pos + 1);
 }
-
 } // end namespace BaseLib
-
diff --git a/BaseLib/FileTools.h b/BaseLib/FileTools.h
index f524b9c19bd088bbd519e2099bc898d444455847..9928b861e322fd57c065195efc47ee39a089af37 100644
--- a/BaseLib/FileTools.h
+++ b/BaseLib/FileTools.h
@@ -1,26 +1,25 @@
 /**
+ * \file
+ * \author Lars Bilke
+ * \date   Apr. 2010
+ * \brief Filename manipulation routines.
+ *
+ * \copyright
  * Copyright (c) 2012, OpenGeoSys Community (http://www.opengeosys.org)
  *            Distributed under a Modified BSD License.
  *              See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or
  *              http://www.opengeosys.org/project/license
  *
- *
- * \file FileTools.h
- *
- * Created on 2010-04-26 by Lars Bilke
- *
  */
 
-
 #ifndef FILETOOLS_H
 #define FILETOOLS_H
 
-#include <string>
 #include <fstream>
+#include <string>
 
 namespace BaseLib
 {
-
 /**
  * \brief Returns true if given file exists. From http://www.techbytes.ca/techbyte103.html
  *
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ bool IsFileExisting(const std::string &strFilename);
  */
 template <typename T> void writeValueBinary(std::ostream &out, T const& val)
 {
-    out.write((const char*)&val, sizeof(T));
+	out.write((const char*)&val, sizeof(T));
 }
 
 /**