#63 Creating documentation from XML

[Geert Jan de Boer]

For the E-intake application a extension a the ePlatform framework has been made which generates a basic decision tree (beslisboom) of a form.

This has been done by looping through the questions and determine which jumps are configured.

This feature can be extended by;
1 adding a 'description' member to the 'jump' node, which makes it easy to understand when a jump is applied.
2 adding the validations which are in a question. By using the errorcode, you can make clear in the generated documentation which and when a validation is performed.

The generated documentation from the XML configuration can be used for;

1 testers, for testing if the application functions as designed
2 functional designer, for updating the application specification
3 last but not least the client

Important to know is that the generated documentation always represents the true functioning of the application, and is never out of date or incomplete. Which other documentation always is!