Proposal: 1. We adopt Anakia for Excalibur and other no-PDF-required projects. 2. Everyone who feels that the Cocoon-based system is nonetheless cool and will kick butt in the long term, go along to to Nicola Ken's Krysalis project (used in Jakarta POI, xml-forrest), and let's get it to a state where it's usable in Avalon.
http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/index.html --Jeff On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:04:38PM +1100, Peter Donald wrote: > Hi, > > I just went to redo the excalibur projects documentation and found that it is > extremely complex to setup and use. You have to go download a 14MB file and > do all sorts of munging to get things working and it is in no way shape or > easy. Even then it spits out mountains of debug and warnings about things > that I am not using etc. > > Compare this to Anakia > > <taskdef name="anakia" classname="org.apache.velocity.anakia.AnakiaTask"/> > > <anakia basedir="${xdocs.src}" destdir="${docs.dir}/" > extension=".html" > style="./site.vsl" > projectFile="stylesheets/project.xml" > includes="**/*.xml" > lastModifiedCheck="true" > templatePath="my/path/stylesheets" > > </anakia> > > I would so love an equivelent simplified "cocoonia" task or whatever. All I > want is basically generate docs via XSLT (maybe multiple passes and maybe > generating pdfs/images). > > I don't think we can afford to rely on cocoon as is for the excalibur > components due to the requirement to use jakarta-avalon CVS is too much. I > also don't think we should subject our users to the angst caused by trying to > get everything installed correctly from released versions. > > So recomendations? Is Cocoon considering such a task in the future and should > I wait ? Should I just use XSLT sheets and leave it at that? Should I convert > to using Anakia ? > > -- > Cheers, > > Pete > > "The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not > like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth > difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to > stand clear before you, never be for or against." - Bruce Lee > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
