--- "Jean T. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current setup at > http://incubator.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html > isn't optimal. 748 > *.ihtml files get rendered into 748 *.html files,
Just a clarification, since in your last email, Ross, you asked how we were using the DITA files with Forrest currently. The answer is that we aren't. The current setup that you see at the manuals link above is based on ihtml files that we created awhile back as a fast solution to getting the docs in Forrest. Right now, the output that we create from the DITA is NOT what you see on our manuals site. We want to replace our current setup using the old ihtml files with a new setup using the DITA output html. What Jean said is correct. We want to be able to use one Forrest instance to create the docs for the site outside of the Forrest instance for the site build. That way we can run the site instance with the docs outside of xdocs, because we dont want to keep having to build the docs each time if they haven't changed. (Jean correct me if I'm wrong) :) However, in your thread with Jean, you did say it might be possible to have the docs in xdocs/, yet tell Forrest not to build them each time. If that is possible, then perhaps we only need one instance? We can keep the dita source in xdocs, and switch a bit somewhere to say "Process the docs, we've made a change to them" or "Dont process the docs, they havent changed since the last time we built"?
