> -----Original Message----- > From: Cocell | Trygve Laugstøl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 June 2003 14:13 > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: Maven web site and Wiki > > Wasnt the point to have a wiki site and then create the xdocs based on the > wiki site?
Nope :-) The wiki automatically saves the topics in xdocs format and in CVS! > > If the wiki site cant commit the wiki entries as xdoc formatted docs in > the > maven cvs, but can export the entries as xml I think wath I proposed would > be > a rather simple solution. Its just a suggestion anyway, im not enlightned > with > the inner workings of wiki sites. Oh sure, but it would be much much easier to have the wiki directly save as xdocs (such as what moinmoin does by default). -Vincent > > Trygve > > Vincent Massol wrote: > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Cocell | Trygve Laugstøl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: 06 June 2003 13:52 > >>To: Maven Developers List > >>Subject: Re: Maven web site and Wiki > >> > >>Hi > >> > >>Sounds like a really good plan, but perhaps there should be installed a > >>normal wiki installation that can deliver xml exports. > >> > >>Then a nighly cronjob could do this > >>1. Export the new/updated entries to a xml file > >>2. Use XSLT to transform the wiki xml to xdoc. > >>3. Use XSLT to take out the commend field and commit it into cvs > >> > >>This way all that needs to be done is to write two rather simple xsl > >>tranformation sheets and the existing cvs mails will tell us about the > >>updates. > > > > > > Why would you need to do all that? That is automatically done on the fly > > when you edit topics in the wiki... > > > > Have a look at: http://www.mockobjects.com/wiki/ > > Here is an example of the generated XML : > > http://www.mockobjects.com/wiki/FrontPage?action=format&mimetype=text/xm > > l > > (you might need to do a "view source" with IE). > > > > -Vincent > > > > > >>Trygve > >> > >>Vincent Massol wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>Here are some facts: > >>>- Our Maven web site contains lots of inaccuracies and would not suffer > >>>from additional documentation > >>>- Some Maven users would be happy to contribute if we gave them easy > >>>tools for that. > >>> > >>>The idea: > >>> > >>>- Transform our web site from a static web site into a Wiki web site. > >>>- But not any wiki! One that saves topics in XML format. For example > the > >>>MoinMoin wiki saves topic in xdocs format (stylebook style > unfortunately > >>>but that's not too far from our xdocs format and could probably be > >>>easily modified ) > >>>- Second step: hook the wiki to CVS so that modifications are saved in > >>>our Maven CVS, directly in xdocs format. This is possible with MoinMoin > >>>and probably with others too. > >>>- Note: The MoinMoin wiki also has a "comment" field that could be used > >>>as the CVS commit message. We could force the need to have a non-blank > >>>text if we wish to make sure there are commit messages. > >>>- We get automatically CVS email notifications whenever pages are > >>>modified and we can thus easily control the changes made to the wiki > and > >>>correct when and if needed. > >>> > >>>Conclusion: > >>>- We keep the advantage of our xdocs > >>>- We can still edit xdocs directly should we wish > >>>- Anyone can contribute easily to the documentation and we get good and > >>>up to date Maven documentation. > >>> > >>>If we agree, there are things to do: > >>>- We need to find a machine where the wiki could run (it could be a > >>>machine provided by a Friend Of Maven or an Apache one if there's one > >>>available) > >>>- We need someone to look at MoinMoin (or another wiki) to perform the > >>>following: > >>> - find how to hook it to CVS > >>> - find how to change the default style to be the Maven style > >>>(stylesheet) > >>> - find how to modify the DTD so that the xdocs are in the Maven xdocs > >>>format > >>> - find how to define where xdocs are saved in CVS so that we try to > >>>match the existing locations of xdocs > >>>- We need a Wiki admin > >>> > >>>What do you think? > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>>-Vincent > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
