Phillip Evans wrote:
It would really help if you make your replies inline as I am doing here.
If someone This keeps the context of our discussion so that I can
remember exactly what we are doing. I write many mails every day and I
have a short memory ;-)
It also helps make the archives much more readable, that is if a new
user has the same problem as you and comes to this mail in the archives
they will see a dialog that describes how to diagnose their problem
rather than a summary that you discovered the solution.
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.
Yes the plugin download mechanism doesn't use a local copy of the file
(neither does the docs build anymore, thanks to your report above).
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.
How can it have been present in the distribution but not in your
installation? Is it safe for me to assume that this is a problem local
to you rather than in the distribution.
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?
I've updated the plugin for version 4.1.2.5 of the plugin but there
isn't a released 1.1 version that I can see (
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/ ). What is the public
identifier you are using?
Once I know what we need to add I'll update the plugin. If you want to
do this yourself (and supply a patch please) then take a look at
input.xmap The supported DTD's are listed at the top of the file and you
will need to add a matcher later in the file, it is pretty much a cut
and past job.
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.
I've added a two sentence description on how to install plugins to the
page as you suggest, it will appear on the site next time we update.
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.
:-))
Ross
