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JDK 6 api javadocs use HTML tables for layout.

These tables display nicely in emacs-w3m, which means I can browse api docs without leaving the emacs.

JDK 6 API docs in w3m

JDK 7 api javadocs use CSS for layout.

This renders this top menu bar as a <ul> which displays vertically due (presumably) to w3m not understanding the CSS. This means that the first page or so of text is wasted.

JDK 7 API docs in w3m

I'd like to render the JDK 7 api docs in the style of JDK 6, so I am hoping to use the JDK 6 doclet to (re)generate the JDK 7 docs using HTML tables. Since this is a one off operation I'm not concerned about inefficiencies etc.

But how do I specify the JDK 6 doclet to use?

sw1nn
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  • Have you tried simply installing JDK6, and using its javadoc tool on the sources of JDK7? Or using a real IDE? I used to be a fan of Emacs, but this was 15 years ago. IDEs are much much more productive than emacs nowadays. – JB Nizet Mar 03 '13 at 16:49
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    javadoc from jdk6 refused to generate anything when pointed at jdk7 source, lots of errors, not sure if it's fixable. Turns out it was easier to just remove the offending ``
      `` from the generated html with some ``awk`` hackery.
     – sw1nn Mar 04 '13 at 00:27
  • Javadoc uses a part of the compiler, the language evolved from 6 to 7, and the JDK likely uses lots of the new language features. You might be able to use the standard doclet from java 6 with javadoc 7, but I'm not totally sure of this. – Paŭlo Ebermann Apr 11 '13 at 19:27
  • Similar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11839580/how-do-i-use-the-old-javadoc-style-theme-with-jdk-7 – rwitzel Nov 05 '13 at 08:15

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