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yes, i have the knowledge. however, i am a developer - what i think is good documentation is not what people like yourself (ie users who are coming to xbmc cold) find is good documentation. good documentation for beginners is written by beginners.

any documentation is better than none. and who says i am a beginner? just because i don't have hundreds of post's on this forum doesn't mean diddly. i have been using modded xboxes and creating custom skins for other dbrs since before xbmc was available. the difference is they had decent docs and people willing to openly share what they had learned. to say that docs for begginers is written by beginners is inaccurate and beside the point. i don't want docs for begginers. i want details. i want clear and understandable, but not dumbed down. i don't want a walk thru. i want an explanation of the tags and how they relate to each other.

if you aren't prepared to share with others (via documenting what you learn), why should someone else do it for you?

that's kinda the pot calling the kettle black, eh?

many others have managed just fine with what we currently have - they've done it by finding stuff out themselves, and asking specific questions when they stumble across something they don't know. unfortunately, not enough of them wrote down what they'd learnt in a place such as the online manual.

most of those many others are developers (like you) or elitists (like you) who use their knowledge like a carrot on a string, to hold sway over people like me who don't have the knowledge. i have asked specific questions. i asked for explanations for the controls in home.xml that aren't explained in the online maual, more specific, i am looking for information on the "listcontrol" control.

i've offered to help you (and any skinner) out, but i'm not going to answer the same questions over and over - thus my simple request.

who says you will have to answer the same question more than once? for a developer, your bs isn't so bright. answer the question once in a public forum, or better yet answer the question by updating the wiki. the answer is there when people search for it after that. your "simple request" is nothing but more elitist bs. take responsibility for the project you are working on. make the information accesible. if you've got time to teach me, take that time to inform everyone.