Peter Donald wrote:
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:07, Henri Yandell wrote:

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Peter Donald wrote:

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:53, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

Just in case you are not aware there is also a bunch of other tool
related code at jakarta/xml. Of those that I am aware;

* gump: continuous integration tool
* ant: build tool
* maven: build and infrastructure tool
* forrest: documentation infrastructure tool

anakia? all that xdoc stuff that does my head in. Or is that the same as forrest?


anakia is just a single ant task that uses velocity. More akin to xalan than forrest. However jakarta-site2/ has a bunch of xsl/velocity templates that are kinda similar in purpose to forrest.

I'd add that the xdocs in Forrest are very very similar to the ones of Anakia.


The most notable

  <s1><s2><s3><s4>  -> <section>
  <a>               -> <link>
  <s1 title="blah"> -> <section><title>blah</title></section>

It's really easy to use Forrest.
Just install it ala-Ant (ie make FORREST_HOME and put the bin dir in you path), then cd in the project dir and run
forrest


Simple as that.

There is a major feature though, that is that Forrest can be used as a webapp, in Tomcat for example.
So you can simply point to the live local site, and when you want to see the changes you doon't need to run a script to regen it all, just hit reload on the browser :-)


We are now working on embedding the webserver and adding editing capability in the browser, but that will be in some weeks time.

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