On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:15:37AM +0000, C Williams wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> I'm doing preliminary research on the development of a
> rendering pipeline to output custom documentation
> using Doxygen's XML output (in a similar manner to
> that used for Xerces{xml.apache.org} and
> OpenTop{elcel.com}).
>
> I was wondering how 'stable' the current Schema(s)
> are: i.e. How 'cast-in-iron' are they?; and what is
> the likelihood that they might be restructured in the
> near future?
>
> The documentation points out that the XML support is
> still under development, and also that XML will be
> used as an intermediate language in future versions.
>
> Small alterations (such as the attribute change from
> 'id' to 'refid') are no problem, but it would be
> useful to know if a major overhaul was looking likely
> (not that it necessarily needs it).
>
> Any information would be gratefully received, and many
> thanks also for this phenomenal tool.
I do not intent to do any major restructuring of the XML
output (unless there is a very very good reason for it,
for instance that the current structure is unusuable, but I
do not expect that to happen). So you can assume the
XML output to be stable as it is now.
Regards,
Dimitri
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