On 29-Jun-2017, at 3:58 PM, Nicolas Lalevée <nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org> wrote:

> 
>> Le 29 juin 2017 à 07:59, Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> A quick update on this one - I finished off the “settings” sections last 
>> week. There is only one pending item that I’m trying to address in that 
>> section. The “Settings” page[1] has a “Settings File Structure” section 
>> which tries to represent the Ivy settings XML file structure as a tree. We 
>> have a similar one, one place else too (in Ivy file page). We use a source 
>> code block to represent it. However, Asciidoc source code blocks are 
>> rendered literally, so it won’t show up the links (as you’ll see in that 
>> page[1] currently). For the Ivy page, I used “lists” to render the structure 
>> and that was “good enough"[2]. However, I can’t use the same here since 
>> Asciidoc (backed by asciidoctor generator) allows a max list depth of 5 
>> which means that any nested elements that exceed that depth won’t be 
>> rendered correctly as a tree. The settings file structure goes beyond that 
>> depth limit so it doesn’t work out well here.
>> 
>> Ultimately, we either have to remove that section (there’s already a “Child 
>> elements” section which _almost_ conveys the same thing) or come up with a 
>> custom asciidoc “tree” kind of block element to render this. Any thoughts?
> 
> If I count correctly, there are 6 levels. So could we just remove the root 
> element from the tree so we save one level ? The root would be just printed 
> as some text. Could it then display correctly ?
> 

That suggestion actually worked well. I went ahead and did that change and 
regenerated the latest “master” site. It looks good 
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/master/settings.html.

-Jaikiran



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