> Yes, it was the entire change of the plugin I wasn't kosher with as it
changed entirely the css and markup and broke the theme work Bob did. I
definitely want to maintain what Bob originally had because it is the
first plugin I intend to swap out partially for the pure java version,
the first phase being simply the xdoc -> xhtml transformation which is
entirely doable as a first step. This is why I was highly hesitant on
processing the massive set of changes.
 
So you are saing that you're going to revert any change to the xdoc plugin while 
migrating to maven2?
And that you want to "freeze" the xdoc plugin development waiting for m2?
That's the point in my previous mails... I'm not against maven2 at all, I like the 
idea to avoid use of jelly everywhere, but this hard line between jelly/POJOs plugins 
is going to cause problems...
Why not start fixing the actual xdoc plugin step by step replacing jelly with some 
java code and trying to not to revert existing functionalities instead of trashing it?

BTW, I understand you can not agree with my changes to the xdoc plugin, but I think 
there were lots of reasons for those:
- the xhtml generated by the old xdoc plugin was wrong. The new one produces valid 
xhtml
- the size of the generated xhtml was ugly due to whitespace. The new one produces 
files 1/3 size whithout destroying html.
- the new plugin allows users to totally customize the layout using only css. You 
should not ever need to supply a custom site.jsl (IHMO this should not be allowed 
-since not needed-, I agree with you for this direction on m2). Being the new layout 
totally tableless you can choose the position of elements in the page and manipute 
them using css (thanks to added classes and IDs).
- probably you haven't ever looked at generated website using IE instead of mozilla... 
sites generated by the old version of the plugin looked horrible (due to gradually 
loading of css, lack of png transparency support, border around nav images, doubled 
vertical space, etc.)
- > broke the theme work Bob did? The UI properties were already gone when I submitted 
my patches, and the css support was only helping in replacing them. Is this the theme 
work you was referring to?

> jvz.
 
fabrizio
 

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