On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 05:29, Glen Stampoultzis wrote:
> What about the possibility of starting a bit smaller and unifying the
> Jakarta skin?
>
> Centipede (which Poi uses) lets you easily switch skins. I imagine
> altering the skin in Maven wouldn't necessarily be that hard. Altering the
> jakarta-site stuff shouldn't be too hard either.
No it wouldn't. If someone wanted to go about creating a set of
stylesheets that were to be used as a skin they might do this:
Unify the use of the same set of stylesheets across the board for
reports. This would involve using the:
pom.getPluginContext('maven-xdoc-plugin').getVariable('maven.xdoc.stylesheets')
syntax to nab a specified directory of stylesheets from the xdoc plugin.
I believe the only two plugins that need aligning are the JXR plugin and
the JavaDoc plugin. They currently have their own CSS property.
So we point at a directory where the stylesheets are contained. Within
the directory, along with the stylesheets could be little snippets of
XML that could be <j:import/>'d into the JSL transformation so the
stylesheets would be applied correctly. For the style we currently use
cascades a maven specific, stylesheet over the tigris one, and there are
instructions for print versions. So whatever is specific to a set of
stylesheets and their use would be in this little snippet of XML that
gets transferred into every document transformed by JSL.
I don't think this would take too long at all if someone wants to give
it a bash.
> The best be would be for someone to come up with a skin that most people
> can agree on and put it to a vote. Not an easy task but worth a shot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glen Stampoultzis
>
>
> At 03:21 PM 25/01/2003 +1100, you wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:05:54AM -0500, Kurt Schrader wrote:
> > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Henri Yandell wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is fine. The problem for Jakarta is that the Maven generated
> > websites
> > > > do not fit the existing L&F. Downloads, sibling projects, general
> > info are
> > > > all missing or setup in different ways.
> > >
> > > The problem for Jakarta is that there is no existing look and feel.
> > > Compare:
> > > http://jakarta.apache.org/
> > > http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/
> > > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
> > >
> > > > If all of Jakarta were to be mandated to be built in the same way etc,
> > > > Forrest would be the way to go.
> > >
> > > That seems kind of arbitrary to me. The current Maven document generator
> > > produces a website that has a consistent look and feel, as well as a
> > > standard way of organizing the important project information. On every
> > > Maven generated site, for instance, I always know exactly where to go to
> > > get to the CVS repo information. Until Forrest has at least reached that
> > > point, I don't see why we would want to use it.
> >
> >Aint gonna happen..
> >
> >When Forrest started a year ago, the goal was to create really
> >impressive, integrated, consistent-L&F, better-than-Sourceforge project
> >'portals', through which xml.apache.org projects could be managed, and
> >real-time info (eg mailing-list stats) obtained. Gump was to be central
> >(hence the name 'Forrest').
> >
> >Forrest evolved at snail-pace for 7 months. I tried to use it, flamed
> >the project in a blog[1], then got on board and started to help. Since
> >then we've completely reoriented the project. Focus is on single-project
> >users, not xml.apache.org. Low 'startup cost' is paramount. Need to
> >generate docs for a project? 1) Type 'forrest seed' to generate a
> >skeleton site, 2) edit the XML content, 3) type 'forrest site' to render.
> >The goal is to combine the power of Cocoon with the simplicity and
> >usability of Anakia. No grand vision, just a tool that does one thing
> >(XML -> websites) well. 0.3 release coming soon :)
> >
> >
> >--Jeff
> >
> >[1] http://www.webweavertech.com/jefft/weblog/archives/000027.html
> >
> >
> > > -Kurt
> > >
> >
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