Documenting answers and dashboards

Is there any way of automatically generating documentation (e.g. for inclusion in technical/design specs) for answers requests and dashboards.
Given that answers metadata is stored as XML (in files under the BIData directory) I would have thought that some sort of tool would be available. I know that in the repository manager (admin tool) there is a metadata report option, but there does not seem to be antything equivalent for anwers and dashboards.
Thanks,
Chris

Thanks Stijn,
It is a good start - and certainly lets me see/check the basis of the answers requests. However I was hoping that there would be some way of creating documentation (word/PDF etc).
As I said before, the answers requests seem to be stored as XML on disk, so I was hoping that there was a standard way of converting them to a documented format (e.g like javadoc for java programs)
Chris

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