What documentation processes to people use?

[Peter Rilling]

I am trying to improve the documentation process at the company I work for.
I would like to ask how others have their process. I have discovered the
DocBook schema, but am wondering if there are other processes that people
use. What tools and schemas are .NET compatible that might be able to be
plugged into our automated build system to improve our process.

 

[Ivan G.]

Hi

I use XML comments and NDoc utility (it's free) which generates MSDN-like
documentation.

 

[Peter Rilling]

Right, and we use that to, but those are only part of the documentation.
What about chapters about system architecture, UI design, etc. Also, the
developer comments do not help when in the architecture and design phase
because no code actually exists to comment.

For instance, DocBook is a schema not centered around the API. That way you
could specify an entire document in XML and just apply a transform. Change
the XSLT to conform to a new format and you change the way the specification
looks.