Generate SDK Documentation Using ASDoc

Question

I am trying to obtain a copy of the toplevel_classes.xml for the entire flex framework. I need the xml file as I suffer from RSI (violins out!) and I use the xml file to generate Voice Commands to help me dictate the code.
I found an excellent article by Rob Dixon about how to generate the toplevel_classes.xml which apparently is not documented in livedocs.
http://rantworld.blogs.com/flashlit/2007/02/use_asdoc_to_dr.html
I am able to generate the required file for small projects, but when it comes to generating the code for the entire current version of the flex sdk, I am at a loss. I have checked out the latest version of the SDK from the svn repository but when I run the asdoc ant task I am faced with a number of errors, which mean no output is generated. I found a bug in the Flex Bug and Issue Management System which seems to relate to my problem. I made a clone of an original issue which was deemed to be resolved, please see key SDK-16843 in the issue management system for info. Please vote for resolution if you think the issue is worthy.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16843
I know that what I need to do is possible, I found out that the technique was used to generate some posters of the entire flex framework, these posters are awesome, I am going to get some printed. See the following link for details.
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/10/cube-wallpaper-as3-and-flex-api.php
Ideally I would like to include the data visualisation components in the documentation output (in fact as much of the flex framework as possible) I have worked out how to do this by following instructions given on the Flex Docs blog which enables me to have the source code for these components available. I am not sure how to set up the asdoc tool to ensure that these classes are included in the doc output.
http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2008/04/extracting_data_visualization.html
My question comes down to this: Does anyone know how to generate the document I require for the entire framework? Your help is most appreciated.

Answer 1

Having same issue on one of our systems, running ant task for
asdoc (and off command line)
Other system is not affected by the issue.
Offending line in class-files.xsl has redirect:write element
with select attribute - Xalan docs say that ‘file’ OR
‘select’ attributes are OK (ASDoc XSL has a select but
no file attribute)
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/apache/xalan/lib/Redirect.html
Tried with several JDKs (1.6.0_12, 1.5.0_6), still
investigating ...