Sorry to join in so late. I was busy writing a paper describing Forrest in German so in a way warming up for this :-)
I commend all of you for the progress visible when following this thread. Most changes seemed to make the message clearer for ordinary users. Still, I couldn't resist to play with your version and come up with this: 'Apache Forrest is a standards-based framework for Single Source Publishing, transforming different input to unified output in formats like HTML and PDF. Its modular and extensible architecture is based on Apache Cocoon and emphasizes the strict separation of presentation and content. Forrest can generated static documents, run on an application server or be deployed by an automated publishing application.' Main change is to use "Single Source Publishing" rather then documentation because I think this is one feature where Forrest is really strong. Yet one might argue that this will confuse people who are looking for a documentation solution and don't know SSP ?! Hope it helps. It's 60 words. -- Ferdinand Soethe
