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s. Doxia is now a subproject of

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which uses it to convert APT (Almost Plain Text) markup documentation into

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or other formats.

Description

Doxia supports markup languages with simple syntaxes.

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s are used by people who might be expected to read the document source as well as the rendered output. It is used extensively by Maven and it powers the entire documentation system of Maven. It gives Maven the ability to take any document that Doxia supports and output it in any format.

History

Based on the Aptconvert project developed by XMLmind, Doxia was initially hosted by Codehaus, becoming a sub-project of Maven early in 2006.

Features

* Developed in

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* Easy-to-learn syntax * Macro support * Extensible framework * Support for several markup formats: ** APT (Almost Plain Text) **

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** FML (FAQ Markup Language) **

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** XDoc **

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References

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