Avalon Beta 2 Released

2001-06-04 Thread Berin Loritsch
The Avalon team are proud to annound the beta 2 release of Avalon Framework and Excalibur 4.0 and Avalon LogKit 1.0. This release includes bugfixes and more current documentation. The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into six sub projects: Framework, Excalibur,

Re: -1 to Anakia

2001-07-16 Thread Berin Loritsch
Jason van Zyl wrote: On 7/16/01 12:03 PM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, In the long run am ok to using anything to do the docs and site. In the short term, let us at least stick to the Stylebook DTD's since every other project in the xml family are already in

Re: -1 to Anakia

2001-07-16 Thread Berin Loritsch
Davanum Srinivas wrote: The URL is - http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/developing/index.html (not .xml) Sorry. I think I am more used to typing .xml by force of habit. --- Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: On 7/16/01 12:03 PM, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL

Re: cocoon is fundamentally flawed - Re: -1 to Anakia

2001-07-16 Thread Berin Loritsch
Robert Koberg wrote: I did a good deal of work with cocoon 1, so I just skimmed the front page to see if anything has changed. It was not apparent to me after skimming the page that this is the case, but I just reread it and looked at your pipeline config file and that looks like the right

Re: +1 to Docbook ( was: Re: -1 to Anakia )

2001-07-16 Thread Berin Loritsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 for docbook It seems we have old stylebook, new stylebook, jakarta-site style ( or however the DTD is called ). AFAIK none of those are clearly documented or defined - and we have quite a few variations already. The result of this is visible in the current

Re: -1 to Anakia

2001-07-18 Thread Berin Loritsch
Sam Ruby wrote: Sigh. I don't recall seeing anybody say that anybody else *had* to use Anakia. What started this thread was somebody asking if they were *precluded* from using Anakia. When all is said and done, Stylebook continues to be as broken as ever. From my point of view, the

Re: -1 to Anakia

2001-07-18 Thread Berin Loritsch
Sam Ruby wrote: Berin Loritsch wrote: 4) wait for somebody else to pave the way on #1 and follow their lead. Hopefully within the next two days... Cool! IMHO, what is needed most is a page like the one found at http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site2.html which tells people

Re: partial parsing of XML

2001-08-23 Thread Berin Loritsch
Andrew Anand wrote: I want to parse a part of the XML file. Say for example I want to somehow tell the parser to skip parsing a portion of XML that references a particular child DTD(parameter entity reference made in parent DTD). Can you please suggest me a way and please note that I do

Avalon Excalibur 4.0 Final Release Available

2001-09-11 Thread Berin Loritsch
Avalon Excalibur 4.0 Released - The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0 final release of the Avalon Excalibur. About Avalon The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur,

Re: website++

2001-10-30 Thread Berin Loritsch
Theodore W. Leung wrote: I've only gotten started looking at DocBook, and it seems like there are more tags than one knows what to do with. Is it really the case that there is no mapping of the current stylebook gramars onto some set of the docbook elements? I'm not sure if simplified

Re: website++: some ideas...

2001-11-01 Thread Berin Loritsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Following Ted's email, I've sketched some Photoshop screens of possible designs for the site. They can be viewed at http://www.corrosive.co.uk/xml_apache_org/presentation/ Could you please let me know your comments? I should add some comments of mine: -

Re: website++: some fixes

2001-11-08 Thread Berin Loritsch
Berin Loritsch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Berin I've changed the font-size from smaller to small - I've checked it with NC 4.77 on Mac and it seems to have done the job. Please let me know if that's the case for you as well. Works for me. Not to be a pain in the ass

Re: website++: some fixes

2001-11-08 Thread Berin Loritsch
Shane Curcuru wrote: See this doc for the last (as I know) copy of build.xml attached that is the basis for the 'jakarta default' build.xml file: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=alexandria-devm=100340866808043w=2 OK, thanks for the pointer. It sounds like it hasn't stabilized yet. -Edwin

Re: website++: some fixes

2001-11-12 Thread Berin Loritsch
Theodore W. Leung wrote: Could you just commit it to xml-site, as newstyle? Or mail me the zip and I'll commit it. I committed the first draft of the build process for you. It needs some fine-tuning to work with xml-site's build process. -- Those who would trade liberty for temporary

Re: website ++ - monochromatic version

2001-11-14 Thread Berin Loritsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:30 PM +0100 11/5/01, Vincent Hardy wrote: This would make the overall design monochromatic and I think it would look great. following Vincent Hardy's comments, a monochromatic version can be found at (only index.html page):

LogKit 1.0 Released

2001-10-26 Thread Berin Loritsch
LogKit 1.0 Released --- The Avalon team is proud to announce the 1.0 final release of LogKit. About Avalon The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its

The Avalon Team is proud to announce Avalon Framework 4.1

2001-12-11 Thread Berin Loritsch
Avalon Framework 4.1 Released - The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.1 final release of the Avalon Framework. About Avalon The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur,

Re: [OT] Design Rant

2001-12-19 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Copied to general@ since this is a general discussion. It's a strong position but, hey, I find resonating with what you're saying :) We have the *luxury* to know what our user base is and estimate their needs very precisely. Moreover, this is a site dedicated

Re: [OT] Design Rant

2001-12-20 Thread Berin Loritsch
Alistair Hopkins wrote: -1 Unless someone can explain WHY tables are a bad way to lay out HTML. 'They weren't intended for it' isn't really good enough! If they provide a richer functionality without nasty side effects why not? How are they so bad for text browsers? Now, the argument

Re: [proposal] Creation of Forrest as full subproject

2002-01-17 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Now, I wonder: is 'forrest' still the right name for the two things combined? I think of them as one thing, that's why I want them combined. Absolutely. No question about it. H. Forrest. Gump. It just seems

Avalon Excalibur 4.1 Released

2002-01-30 Thread Berin Loritsch
Avalon Excalibur 4.1 Released - The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.1 final release of the Avalon Excalibur. About Avalon The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur,

Re: version numbers in jars

2002-02-21 Thread Berin Loritsch
Thomas B. Passin wrote: [Elliotte Rusty Harold] You're still using the classpath for jars? I only do that when I want to change the classpath on a per-run basis, in which case I am changing it and using the version number is not a problem. However, for standard libraries like xerces.jar that

Re: version numbers in jars

2002-02-21 Thread Berin Loritsch
Thomas B. Passin wrote: [Berin Loritsch] Thomas B. Passin wrote: any given app finds the right version? For some jars like Xerces/Xalan, if you code to the plugable API (aka JAXP), you only need to upgrade the jar--no recompilation or refactoring needed. For others, like the Commons