On 12 May 2005, at 16:36, Upayavira wrote:
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I was just chatting with Sylvain about this. We don't have time to create an xdocs export for Daisy, but if all goes well, we'll be doing Daisy Books (aggregation and book-like publishing) over summer. Those would target XSL-FO and HTML as rendition formats. Maybe someone can track this to see how easy it would be to do an xdocs exporter as well.
As I said in an overlapping mail, Forrest has an alpha quality Daisy plugin and since Cocoon use Forrest problem solved (incidentally this means that documents uploaded in Open Office Impress or Word and MS Office Powerpoint, word or excel are also included, together with other source formats such as wiki, docbook, POD, even plain old text :-))
DITA is in the pipeline, even Drupal imports is a possibility if enough need arose.
Of course, since the Wiki already supports branching, it already supports most software documentation needs IMHO. But one could always create a barebones skin and run wget over it to produce frozen, SVN-able static HTML files.
Forrest can be run either dynamically, therefore giving a realtime view of the repositories or to create a static site in order to put snapshots into SVN and releases. These snapshots can be in any output format supported by Forrest (XDoc, XHTML, PDF etc.)
(note today I started a thread over on the daisy dev lists about using Forrest to implement their "publish only" goal on their roadmap, interested folk should contribute to that thread).
Ross
