[ANNOUNCEMENT] DocFlex/XSD

DocFlex/XSD is a new easy adjustable template-driven XML Schema
documentation generator.

It is able to generate professional quality documentation for any
W3C XML Schema(s) in the form of both multi-framed hypertext HTML
and printable RTF output.

The framed Javadoc-like HTML documentation generated with DocFlex/XSD
will allow you to quickly decipher any XML schemas and represent them
in a beautiful clear-cut form with great a lot of details about the
schema components and all interconnections between them.
This may dramatically save your time in understanding what those
schemas actually describe and largely relieve you of working through
the verbose syntax of original XML schema documents.

The documentation generated in RTF format reproduces the same
sophisticated content and formatting visible in HTML.
However, now it is in the form of a single RTF document friendly
to open with both MS Word and OpenOffice.org Writer under Linux.
In addition, most of hyperlinks are supplemented with page number
references, which helps navigating the documentation in printed form.

If you are an XML schema author yourself, DocFlex/XSD may be even more
useful tool for you. In fact, it may greatly help you to automat the
process of documenting your XML schemas!

Using DocFlex/XSD, you won't need anymore to write a separate
documentation for every XML schema in your project. Instead, using the
<xs:annotation> elements, you can insert all your descriptions directly
into the schemas themselves. What's new now is that along with the text
you can also insert the XHTML markup tags so as to format your
descriptions in almost any imaginable way you wish:

  (*) use different fonts and colors
  (*) construct tables of any complexity
  (*) specify bulleted and numbered lists
  (*) insert hyperlinks

Moreover, using <img> tags you can even insert images directly into
your XML schema annotations!

Since, according to the W3C XML Schema specification, each
<xs:documentation> element (where the annotation's text is exactly
specified) is allowed to contain children from any other namespaces,
the XML schemas containing annotations preformatted with XHTML tags
will be the valid W3C XML schemas as well.
At the same time, DocFlex/XSD will process such XML schemas into
a splendid HTML or RTF documentation.

DocFlex/XSD is a pure Java application able to run on any computer
platform with the installed JRE version 1.4.x or later.
In particular, it is supplied with the command files prepared
to run immediately on MS Windows and Linux.

The DocFlex/XSD software includes three base components:

  (1) The graphic Templates Designer
  (2) The templates interpreter / output generator
  (3) The "XSDDoc" template set

The XML Schema Documentation Generator itself is implemented entirely
as a set of "XSDDoc" templates processed by a special interpreter that
generates the output documentation. It can be run both in command-line
mode (including seamless integration with Apache Ant) and with
a generator GUI.

Using the generator GUI, you can specify all the generator settings
interactively in special inspector dialogs (including numerous template
parameters controlling great a lot of documentation details), start
the generation and visually track its progress (with the possibility
to stop it at any time).

The "XSDDoc" templates are open for any changes and modifications.
The high quality graphic Template Designer included in the package
represents the templates in the form that visualizes the result
output documentation. Using it, you can quickly and easily customize
the generated XML schema documentation according to your specific
requirements and needs.

The entire DocFlex/XSD system is based on a much more general
innovative technology that to some degree may be considered as
a rival of XSL Transformations.

Using DocFlex/XSD requires licensing. However, there is a freeware
edition, which includes only "XSDDoc" templates and interpreter.
So, you can start using the best quality XML Schema documentation
generator immediately and absolutely free!

For lots more information and downloads, please follow these links:

DocFlex/XSD home page:
http://www.filigris.com/products/docflex_xsd/

Examples of generated XML Schema documentation:
http://www.filigris.com/products/docflex_xsd/examples/

Free downloads:
http://www.filigris.com/downloads/


Sincerely,
FILIGRIS WORKS
http://www.filigris.com



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