>>>>> "Joern" == Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Joern> as to re-using an existing grammer as opposed to making up
    Joern> one on-the-fly, i would also be interested in
    Joern> recommendations from list members. 

I would say it depends whether or not a particular grammar is
sufficient for your purposes.

    Joern> is there something
    Joern> similar to javadoc that can extract documentation from xml
    Joern> files?

Yes. It's called ...

XSLT :-)
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire