i think forrest may turn out to be a wonderful "immediate value" publication for lenya. we have been looking at ways to lower the entry barriers into lenya, and having a well-supported publication that works out of the box would be very sweet.
Hm. This is the kind of dicussion we'd better move to [EMAIL PROTECTED] until the proper Apache lists have been created.
Could you clarify to us Lenya newbies what defines a 'publication'? And how 'publications' relate to the content management features Lenya offers? Is the CMS stuff (editing, staging, ...) to be implemented per-publication?
FYI, Forrest's most valuable assets are XML grammars and a clever set of pipelines that render a set of docs across a standard skinning system to websites. The set of ins and outs is not as big as we would like to see, but we have some notions about site hierarchy management and publication. And we can configure pipelines depending on the XML grammar of the content being passed through it.
http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/sites/xml-forrest/your-project.html and http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/sites/xml-forrest/linking.html are required reading if you want to learn more about Forrest (oh yes, there were times we had more docs than features in Forrest, since most of the Forrest committers really dig pointy brackets :-)
Could you point us to a similar entry-level overview of Lenya? Or sitemaps we need to read & understand?
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