Eric, the appendix e pdf has exactly the information i've needed for a long time, thanks.
Bill. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Ant Core Task Quick Reference > > On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 12:55 PM, Kenneth Lee wrote: > > Thank you. I was once thinking about doing something similar. > > But then I realize that keeping another set of documentation is likely > > to have it not-synced with the rapidly changing core manual. > > > [...] > > > So I propose that the core documentation to be rebuilt from scratch, > > probably in XML, so that different views of the manual (normal view > > as well as quickref and index) could be generated in a unified manner > > (thru XSLT and CSS.) > > Its in progress. In fact, the past several days I've been refactoring > the proposal/xdocs stuff and I'm going to make it part of the XDoclet > project as a special set of Ant-specific subtasks to process Ant tasks > and datatypes and extract the useful info and XML-ify it. Its already > been done, and the results can be seen here: > > http://www.manning.com/hatcher/appendixE.pdf > > As Steve has already mentioned, there is still a way to go with making > documentation as rich as the current HTML docs, but that can be handled > with some merge points in XDoclet to pull in some extra files per task > to include examples or more. > > Its always been my goal to generate a quick reference of Ant > tasks/datatypes, and we achieved this goal mostly already and its > dead-on 100% accurate with how Ant works, rather than the current HTML > documentation which may (or may not) have holes in which > attributes/elements are shown. Generating from XDoclet will ensure > accuracy and allow attribute/element descriptions to be where they are > defined rather than separately maintained. > > Erik > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
