Patent ID: 7096420

Claim:
In a computer operating system using commands with command specifications in command definition files, a method for generating command documentation content, said method comprising: a) examining a command definition file for a syntactic structure of a corresponding command, wherein said command definition file comprises a linkpoint, a keyword, and an argument; b) extracting a documentation requirement from said syntactic structure wherein said syntactic structure represents documentation content of said command definition file with natural language syntax; c) extracting documentation options from said syntactic structure wherein said documentation requirement and said documentation options correspond to a partial fraction of actual content of said command definition file; d) combining said documentation requirement and said documentation options into a documentation tag construct wherein said documentation tag construct is embeddable into said command definition file; and e) automatically generating a standard template for a documentation content file, wherein said document content file comprises a natural language explanation of said keyword and said argument, wherein said document content file provides a standard framework with automatically generated content and wherein said automatically generated content is end-user over-writable with at least one of documentation content and data of localized relevance to said end-user.