[DDI-SRG] schema documentation

[Joachim Wackerow]

Pascal,

Thank you for providing the DDI documentation online and for the short 
overview.

It looks good.

Achim

Pascal Heus wrote:
> Achim:
> here is the link to the web based version:
> http://www.opendatafoundation.org/ddi/ddi3.0_docflex/
> 
> There is no built in search but fairly easy to implement using Google
> custom search engine:
> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010704714623080648364:rimzupmktw8&hl=en
> (nothing there yet, will take a little while for Google to crawl the new
> pages)
> 
> Product information is available at:
> http://www.filigris.com/products/docflex_xml/xsddoc/about.php
> I used the free version. The licensed one comes with a template editor
> that provides more control of the output.
> License is €99 or free for qualifying educational institutions.
> Note that it's not that hard to modify their .tpl files by hand (but
> they deserve the support)
> 
> Note that you can also generate an RTF output but in the particular case
> of DDI 3/0, it results in a 62Mb / 4500 pages document :-)
> 
> best
> *P
> 
> Joachim Wackerow wrote:
>> Pascal sent me the DDI documentation generated by this tool. It looks
>> pretty good. I think it would be a good addition as on-line
>> documentation at the DDI 3 web page.
>>
>> Pascal:
>> Can you provide the generated DDI documentation at some host on-line,
>> so people can have a look. At Thursday we can then perhaps talk about
>> that and see if something should be adjusted. Maybe we can decide
>> positively.
>>
>> Are there any possibilities for a full-text search or for generating
>> diagrams based on the given structure?
>>
>> Achim
>>
>> Pascal Heus wrote:
>>> All:
>>> just bumped into this documentation generator tool suite from a company
>>> called Filigris. One of the tools generates pretty neat documentation
>>> for XML schema (similar to JavaDoc). Its free for academic institutions
>>> but otherwise only €99. Might be nice add on documentation for DDI.
>>>
>>> See some examples at:
>>> http://www.filigris.com/products/docflex_xml/xsddoc/examples/index.php
>>> Product page:
>>> http://www.filigris.com/products/docflex_xml/xsddoc/about.php
>>>
>>> *P
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