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+This "package" is just a copy of the stuff I use to generate the documentation
+for the dlib library. It contains a copy of the XSLT and XML I use to
+generate the HTML documentation.
+
+The current version of these files can be obtained from the dlib GitHub
+repository at: https://github.com/davisking/dlib
+
+======================== Overview ========================
+
+I write all my documentation in XML files. If you look through the files in
+the docs folder you will see each of them. There is also a stylesheet.xsl
+file which contains all the XSLT I wrote to transform XML files into HTML.
+Anyway, I use that stylesheet to generate the dlib documentation from those
+XML files.
+
+There is also a stylesheet inside the docs/chm folder (htmlhelp_stylesheet.xsl)
+that knows how to look at the XML files and generate the table of contents
+files needed by the htmlhelp tool (the thing that makes chm help files).
+
+Also note that the first 80 or so lines of the stylesheet.xsl file contains
+stuff specific to the dlib project and thus should be changed or removed
+as appropriate if you want to reuse it for a different project.
+
+======================== Installing the required tools ========================
+
+To begin with, the XML and XSLT is usable on any operating system, however,
+all the scripts I have in the docs folder that automate everything are bash
+shell scripts. I also use stuff like wine and other Linux tools and I have
+only ever tested any of this in Debian. So if you want to use all the scripts
+then you should probably run this stuff in Linux. But if not you can probably
+hack something together :)
+
+There are four scripts in the docs folder.
+
+ - testenv_rel: This script tests your environment for all the needed utilities.
+ Run it and it should tell you what else you need to install.
+ Note that the htmlify utility is something I wrote and is in
+ dlib's repository in the tools/htmlify folder. You should
+ build and install it. (go into that folder, make a subfolder
+ called build, then cd into build and say: "cmake ..; make;
+ sudo make install". You will need to install cmake if you
+ don't have it already)
+
+ - makedocs: This remakes all the HTML documentation by pulling files out
+ of the dlib repository. If you want to use this stuff for your
+ own projects you will need to edit this file a bit.
+
+ Note that this script puts its output in the docs/web and
+ docs/chm/docs folders. I use the chm folder for off-line
+ documentation while the web folder contains what goes onto
+ dlib.net. Both sets of HTML are generated from the same XML
+ files and are mostly the same. You will see <chm></chm> and
+ <web></web> tags inside the XML though in cases where the two
+ differ.
+
+ - makerel: Runs makedocs as well as creates tar and zip files of the project.
+ It also runs htmlhelp in wine to generate the chm help files.
+ Note that you will need to run docs/chm/htmlhelp/setup_htmlhelp.sh
+ before it will work in wine.
+
+
+======================== License for documentation files ========================
+
+To the extent possible under law, Davis E King has waived all copyright and
+related or neighboring rights to dlib documentation (XML, HTML, and XSLT files).
+This work is published from United States.
+
+That is, I (Davis the author) don't care what you do with this. So do
+whatever you want :)
+
+
+