Docutool is a Matlab toolbox to automatically generate documentation from the comments in Matlab source code.
The toolbox was developed by Modelit to facilitate the easy generation of documentation and therefore the maintainability of the source code for internal and external use.

The toolbox contains functions to analyse all the files and their dependencies in a Matlab project and extracts all relevant comments in the source code.
The Modelit XML toolbox is used to store these data in an XML document, this XML document is then used to generate HTML documentation by using a stylesheet. If desired this stylesheet can be modified to generate documentation with different layouts and styles.

The HTML documentation consists of a list of all functions and classes in the Matlab project.
With for every function at least:

• The function description
• The function call
• The input
• The output
• A list of subfunctions

For every subfunction the documentation contains at least:

• The function description
• The function call

And for every class in the project:

• The class description
• The properties
• The methods

Below a partial screendump of the JavaComponent Toolbox function list