About DocFlex/XSD II


What is DocFlex/XSD?

DocFlex/XSD is a toolkit to generate high quality XML schema documentation.

Basically, it is a single name given to a group of features of DocFlex/XML (a universal XML documentation/report generator), which include the following:

# Feature Description
1 DocFlex/XML XSDDoc A template set for DocFlex/XML that implements a very powerful XML Schema Documentation Generator able to produce both multi-framed Javadoc-like HTML and printable RTF documentation.
2 DocFlex/XML Generator The template interpreter + output generators that make everything work.
3 Ant/Maven Integrations Allow you to run the documentation generator from your Ant/Maven build.
4 XMLSpy Integration Automatically inserts graphic diagrams produced by Altova XMLSpy into documentation generated by XSDDoc (with the full support of diagram hyperlinks).
5 OxygenXML Integration Automatically inserts graphic diagrams produced by Oxygen XML Editor into documentation generated by XSDDoc (with the full support of diagram hyperlinks).
6 Template Designer Provides a GUI to create/modify templates (e.g. XSDDoc).

Why “DocFlex/XSD II” name?

Some time ago we provided a separate edition of DocFlex/XML called "DocFlex/XSD", which included some of those features (specifically 1, 2, and 6). You can still find references to it in Internet. So, this may be considered as a new version (or generation) of the same thing. That's why the “II” has been added.

However, maintaining a separate edition is currently not effective. We just replaced it with a more flexible licensing system. Yet, a single name is still needed to designate the whole functionality especially for marketing/promotion purposes.

What is DocFlex/XSD version number?

It is the version number of the main component: DocFlex/XML XSDDoc template set, which implements the XML schema doc-generator itself.

How to get started?

This software archive includes the full edition of DocFlex/XML. So, all components listed above are here. You can start from {docflex-xml}/README.html etc.

But we recommend you first to look at this page: http://www.filigris.com/docflex-xsd/