[xquery-talk] [ANN] xqDoc 1.0 Release

[Governor James]

GREAT work by elseview. Props deserved

http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000527.html

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From: talk-bounces at xquery.com [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf
Of McBeath, Darin W. (ELS)
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:13 PM
To: talk at xquery.com
Subject: [xquery-talk] [ANN] xqDoc 1.0 Release

After several months of development, Elsevier, Inc. is pleased to
announce the initial release of xqDoc, an open source XQuery
documentation tool. 

	http://www.xqdoc.org

xqDoc provides a simple vendor neutral solution for documenting XQuery
library and main modules, as well as tools to generate a user friendly
presentation of this documentation and cross referencing information.
This is being accomplished through (4) specific components: 

1.	xqDoc proposes a new commenting convention that extends the
currently defined XQuery comment style. This convention is modelled
after Java's Javadoc commenting style, and provides a simple, uniform
way to document XQuery source code. 

2.	xqDoc defines a standard xqDoc XML schema. This schema provides
a
neutral format for storing information for user-defined XQuery modules
as well as 3rd party proprietary functions that may be implemented in
other programming languages.

3.	xqDoc provides a vendor neutral Java based conversion package
that
parses an XQuery library or main module and generates an xqDoc XML
document modelled after the xqDoc XML schema. Support for specific XML
database platforms is provided by writing vendor specific drivers to
store the generated xqDoc XML into the vendor's database. 

4.	xqDoc provides a vendor neutral presentation component,
consisting
of XQuery main modules and a library module, that can process the xqDoc
XML
document(s) stored in a XML database and generate an extensively
hyperlinked XHTML navigation interface. 

We are anxious to receive feedback on xqDoc from the XQuery development
and XML database vendor community.

Darin McBeath.
darin at xqdoc.org
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