Hi,
> Some of the issues you raise were what prompted me to experiment with > Forrest 2. I created a simple prototype of Forrest 2 a long time ago, > however, I've since moved onto other things (Apache Sling provides much of > what I, personally, need). This was intended to simplify the use of Forrest > whilst retaining the flexibility of the plugin framework. > actually i have checked out Forrest 2 and this gave me the idea to program it in PHP. There has, in the past, been some interest in a "lightweight" forrest. > However, I suspect for you to gather interest here it would have to reuse > much of what is going on in the Forrest world, i.e. be able to use existing > plugins (or at least substantial parts of them). Certainly that would be the > case for me. > Interesting point. I would have to figure out how that would work. In fact, due to the scripting engines in Java, it would be possible to integrate a Java-Forrest with PIWI. One could use the old Java-Plugins, while using PIWI then. PIWI could be used as a forrest plugin or standalone. The fact that you are using "piwi-xml" is a concern. Forrest is trying to > move to a subset of XHTML2, it is highly unlikely that we would go the route > of another non-standard format. > I missed the discussion about moving to XHTML i guess. I think you have good reasons for this and will lookup the old discussions about this. I may choose XHTML2 too. > I'd also be concerned about the apparant lack of static generation in PIWI > - this is a main feature of Forrest. > That's true. Here could also help the Forrest-Piwi plugin mentioned above, or a Java-Crawler which also uses PIWI. Java is great for that stuff meanwhile and the resin php implementation works very good. I am not sure about the license stuff here. > However, your proposal is interesting, it's just impossible for me to say > whether *I* would be interested because your site does not provide enough > information about what it can and cannot do. Putting together a sample site > demonstrating all the features would be good. > I will put such a site together, with more documentation and then come back to this list. If some of you are interested in trying out: after downloading and putting the code into a php5 host a sample site is allready configured. thanks for your interest! Chris. > > Ross >
