Hi all, I am new to this list. I am a Derby contributor, and I wanted to see if I could help out with Ross's Jira issue:
http://issues.cocoondev.org/browse/FOR-461 I created the DITA docs that Derby is using for documentation, and since we use Forrest for our site, it would be nice if we could throw our XML DITA files into directories within our xdocs/ directory and get a working site with html output in there using the DITA toolkit. Basically, all the DITA toolkit does is use xsl transforms with ant to build html or PDF (with FOP). There is a preprocessing step to fix related links and linking etc. So in my research of Forrest, it seems I would have to follow this process to get a transform to work with DITA's xsl files: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/your-project.html#sitemap.xmap I am not worried about validation yet, I just want to get the transforms to work, so I will probably set forrest.properties to ignore validation of the DITA files. Is there anyone who would like to work on this with me who might know a lot more about modifying the xmap files to accept new xsl files? I figure it might be easier to share my DITA toolkit knowledge with someone more familiar with Forrest, and together we can get the right xsl files in the right places and allow for preprocessing and full transform of the DITA source in a Forrest site build. Also, please let me know if I am approaching this incorrectly! Thanks, Jeff
