Ross, Thanks for your time on this. I have done as you outlined. After running forrest site in testSDocbook directory I again got the message in the console:
BROKEN: C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\apache-forrest-0.7\plugins\plugins.xml <The system cannot find the file specified> However all the plugins appeared to be retrieved and configured as you describe. I checked the distribution zip file for forrest and found that \apache-forrest-0.7\plugins\plugins.xml was present, so copied it to where it should have been in my installation. I re-ran forrest site without problems. I then ran forrest run in: FORREST_HOME/build/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.simplifiedDocbook without problems, and could view sdocbook.html and .pdf I then tried adding one of my own sdocbook documents, and again had the problem of no content. I checked out input.xmap, and found that it had a sourcetype of sdocbook-v1.0, whereas my documents are all sdocbook-v1.1 I assigned sdocbook-v1.0 to a couple of my documents, and they worked fine. I suppose it is possible to modify input.xmap so that will accept sdocbook-v1.1 as well? Where should that be done? It may have been that downloading the plugins manually meant that they were not installed correctly. Might I suggest that on the initial plugins page on forrest.apache.org that a indication be placed above the download section that this is normally done automatically by forrest, rather than having to follow a link to a second page to find this out. Still, I have learned heaps more than I would have if it had all gone smoothly, as it obviously does if done right. Next time, read the instructions, Phillip, read the instructions. Now to try out the testSDocbook site with some of my documents. Thanks again, Ross. I am using forrest-0.7 -----Original Message----- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:53 AM To: user@forrest.apache.org Subject: Re: simplified docbook plugin (Was: Forrest run works but forrest doesn't) Phillip Evans wrote: > OK, here is the process I followed and the issues that I have found > while getting forrest to work with sdocbook. Once we have verified that this works (or debugged why it doesn't work) we'll get your sdocbook files working in the new sample site we did. Ross
