Jeff, At the risk of sounding disloyal to an Avalon using project and my Avalon touting frineds (Cocoon and Cocooners), I am inclined to agree...
- Paul >Proposal: > >1. We adopt Anakia for Excalibur and other no-PDF-required projects. >2. Everyone who feels that the Cocoon-based system is nonetheless cool >and will kick butt in the long term, go along to to Nicola Ken's >Krysalis project (used in Jakarta POI, xml-forrest), and let's get it to >a state where it's usable in Avalon. > >http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/index.html > >--Jeff > > >On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:04:38PM +1100, Peter Donald wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I just went to redo the excalibur projects documentation and found that it is >>extremely complex to setup and use. You have to go download a 14MB file and >>do all sorts of munging to get things working and it is in no way shape or >>easy. Even then it spits out mountains of debug and warnings about things >>that I am not using etc. >> >>Compare this to Anakia >> >><taskdef name="anakia" classname="org.apache.velocity.anakia.AnakiaTask"/> >> >><anakia basedir="${xdocs.src}" destdir="${docs.dir}/" >> extension=".html" >> style="./site.vsl" >> projectFile="stylesheets/project.xml" >> includes="**/*.xml" >> lastModifiedCheck="true" >> templatePath="my/path/stylesheets" > >></anakia> >> >>I would so love an equivelent simplified "cocoonia" task or whatever. All I >>want is basically generate docs via XSLT (maybe multiple passes and maybe >>generating pdfs/images). >> >>I don't think we can afford to rely on cocoon as is for the excalibur >>components due to the requirement to use jakarta-avalon CVS is too much. I >>also don't think we should subject our users to the angst caused by trying to >>get everything installed correctly from released versions. >> >>So recomendations? Is Cocoon considering such a task in the future and should >>I wait ? Should I just use XSLT sheets and leave it at that? Should I convert >>to using Anakia ? >> >>-- >>Cheers, >> >>Pete >> >>"The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not >>like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth >>difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to >>stand clear before you, never be for or against." - Bruce Lee >> >>-- >>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]> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
