Re: [Doxygen-develop] Doxygen XML Schema life expectancy

[Dimitri v. H. <di...@st...>]

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