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   Re: Javadoc comments or equivalent in XSchema

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  • From: rbourret@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Ron Bourret)
  • To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
  • Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 11:58:28 +0200

> I think the remaining one might be useful (or possibly already discussed
> here).  I have been using some JavaDoc-like comments in my XML-Data
> definitions to automatically generate HTML documentation for the document
> content.  I have had my XML-Data to DTD converter modified to produce the
> HTML documentation at the same time as it builds the DTD.
> 
> I haven't been making a distinction between regular comments and processed
> comments and have only been using @see and @example formulations.  Between
> minimal comments and information in the schema, it is able to do a
> reasonably good job documenting how to use the schema.
> 
> Has any body else been doing anything in this area?

XSchema does something similar.  Most elements contain an optional Doc element 
which, in turn, contains a subset of HTML: John Cowan's Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny 
Simple Hypertext (IBTWSH) format ( http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/ibtwsh.dtd )  
See section 2.6.1 of the spec 
(http://members.aol.com/simonstl/xschema/spec/xscspec2p6v3.htm)

-- Ron Bourret

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