This reminds me of my problem automatically generating DAO code for some, but not all, classes in a package.
What I did was create an empty interface that only the classes I wanted to generate implemented. The xdoclet invocation that generated the DAO classes was restricted to classes that implement that interface.
You should be able to do something similar.
I'm afraid by misrepresenting my actual problem, I've led you into supplying advice I can't use. My fault :-(
BTW, why are you providing external documentation for your classes instead of the interface? Good coding practice, as I understand it, would dictate that they use the interface exclusively in their code, with the exception of the constructor calls. And that should probably be hidden in an appropriate Factory class. Or are you documenting only the factories?
Not so. In the classic case of the decorator pattern, each class implements the same interface, and yet has (usefully) different behaviour. See the various "Collections" in java.util...
Anyway:
I actually simplified my task to keep my request brief. I actually have 2 sets of documentation to generate, but I tried not to bore the list with irrelevant details.
To re-iterate, making more assumptions. I would like to embded documentation (in whatever form recommended) such that it can be identified, extracted, reformatted and collated into a single file (eventually HTML or PDF, but an intermediate XML stage might be part of the process).
Any specific coding examples, code samples, ant invocations, would be greatly welcomed. I'm having trouble locating the "heart" of xdoclet from the great morass of EJB specific stuff.
BugBear
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