Creating javadoc style documentation without source code

Question

I'm looking into writing documentation about some functions but do not want to write the documentation in the source code.

Is there a template I can follow, e.g XML, or something which can generate some sort of Javadoc-ish looking style documentation?

Answer 1

Maybe you are looking for something like Doxygen, an API-documentation tool that can also be used to write other documents (f.ex. the manual of doxygen was produced with Doxygen itself without normal source code.)

Another tool would be Sphinx, which can also be used for API-documentation and also manuals without source code (ex: Python documentation).