Hi,
I just released JPluck 2.0 pre1. http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/jpluck2/ This prerelease is primarily intended to show off the JXL 2.0 format. There is no GUI for editing JXLs yet, so you'll have to resort to a text/XML editor. That said, the JXL format has been documented extensively with a two-part tutorial, a reference and plenty of examples. If you don't mind editing XML by hand you should definitely give this release a try. If you absolutely need a GUI, you should stick with JPluck 0.9. I've been using JPluck 2 for the past few weeks and it's working really well for me. Code refactoring is an ongoing process, but I've already made some really good improvements. The most important highlight is the new JXL 2.0 format. Also, web sites and RSS feeds can now be combined in a JXL, essentially rendering BlogPluck obsolete. The significantly reduced memory usage deserves special mention. JPluck 2 now pages text records and images temporarily to disk rather than keep their data in memory. I've succesfully converted huge documents ranging in size from 10 to 20Mb. (For example the complete O'Reilly web development CD bookshelf, which JPluck converted to a 22MB ZLIB-compressed PDB). With documents of these sizes memory usage hovered around the 70Mb mark, which is quite reasonable. The last noteworthy feature is the ability to transform JXLs right in the browser through XSLT. Examples: http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/jpluck2/jxl/nytimes.xml http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/jpluck2/jxl/theregister.xml You need IE6 or Mozilla 1.2+ (or Firebird) to get the intended result. Opera does not support XSLT. If you select "View Source" you'll notice that the JXL looks quite different from the page that you're seeing on screen. This is because the XSLT stylesheet has transformed it to a browser-friendly web page. One more example, my own JXL: http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/jpluck2/jxl/laurens.xml Anyway, I will be very busy this summer so I won't update JPluck very often the next few months. I plan to resume work on JPluck in the autumn. As always, let me know what you think. Regards -Laurens --- http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/ Plucker document creation toolkit _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
