I see. I've actually been playing with this xbook program and it's actually pretty cool. This is the program the w3c people use to transform their xml specifications into the ones we see at www.w3.org. It's main focus is very similar to the xdoc format - it's like docbook but it's much simpler and it comes with support for code listings and various things. When I noticed that these documents are called 'xbook' rather than 'xdoc', I realized that I had found the wrong program =). Google doesn't turn up much for 'xdoc'. The rest were just references to the maven and forrest websites, but a lot of the documents I clicked on were change files and various other things to do with those programs.
Well, I think I'll roll out my own XSLT file then, which is what I was planning on doing anyway. This Xbook tool isn't that bad though and makes for a pretty good tool for rolling out documentation or books in a single file or in multiple files. It doesn't support PDF though, but it's fairly lightweight and focuses on one problem. I tend to like tools that too that. I think you could provide your own stylesheets with it as well, so it's basically the same thing. I'll still use the xdoc format though for when we decide to use Maven in the future. It's good to know all these tools exist though and have a rough idea on how they are used. Thanks Aslak, Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aslak Hellesøy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:27 AM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] xbook > xbook looks like something else. > > xdoc is a proprietary xml format invented by jakarta. it's kind of plain > xhtml with some extra tags (section, source...) to mark sections ans source > sections. > > details are here: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site-tags.html > > i think there are only two tools that can transform xdoc documents to human > readable documents: > > o anakia (part of velocity). it transforms to docs with a look similar to > the link above. > o maven. it transforms to docs like on the maven site itself. it can also > transform them to pdf. > > it's of course possible to roll your own xslt to transform xdoc documents. > it's also possible to use anakia (or maven) and tweak the stylesheets they > provide. neither of anakia/maven use xslt stylesheets, but velocity to do > the actual transformation. > > aslak > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken > Egervari [eXtremePHP] > Sent: 12. desember 2002 14:05 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OS-webwork] xbook > > > I've searched around google and this is the xdoc implementation that I > found: > > http://www.justobjects.org/xbook/ > > This is the one, correct? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: > With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility > Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel > http://hpc.devchannel.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
