> Would it be difficult (possible) to make a generator for rdoc that
> generates the rdoc in a database format?

I think RDoc already generates the data in YAML, doesn't it? I too 
would love to see a Rails application that could import a YAML set of 
definitions and provide a php.net-like doc portal with comments and 
searching. That would surely be nice.
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