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Subject: Re: ebrowse database file format documentation?
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> From: Mike <ckimyt@gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:07:03 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Hi folks...I'm interested in a document that describes in detail the
> actual database file format that ebrowse generates.  It looks like
> it's just lisp data, but I'm wondering if anybody has stuff to read
> (other than the elisp source) that explains what each record means,
> the fields, arrity, etc. etc.  Where's the DTD?  =)

See the `defstruct's in ebrowse.el, and their doc strings.  That
should be enough to get you off the ground.