On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:48, Daryl Beattie wrote:
> Dear Apache people,
>
> I have a question regarding Stylebook -- a question that I have
> found no other forum in Apache to ask (or have answered). It seems that
> although I have looked far and wide for some kind of web page describing
> stylebook, I have found none. I know I can download it from Apache, and was
> once told that it was an Apache project that got scrapped.
> I happen to like stylebook, and use it to this day. I can see how it
> would overlap with docbook, but I like stylebook more for many reasons.
> Anyway, I suppose I have the following questions:
I don't know the history exactly but it doesn't really compete with docbook
(a document DTD) becuae it is a XML publishing engine. It was produced by
Pier Fumagalli (sp?) when he was at IBM and was part of the basis on which
Cocoon2 was designed. It is still available in CVS (xml-stylebook????) but no
one really maintains it anymore. Ask on cocoon list for more details.
> 1) What is the current status of stylebook? Can I get a (very) brief
> history of it?
>
> 2) IF if was an Apache project... why is there absolutely no mention of it
> anywhere? No, "this project is dead" site?
I don't think it was ever a project per se.
> 3) I read somewhere a long time ago that there was some replacement Apache
> project for stylebook (that involved some kind of embedding of style
> information -- which I considered to be not as good design). Is there? I
> couldn't find it... Was it Anakia?
Probably Cocoon2 (see xml.apache.org) - not sure. Anakia is the product
many jakarta projects use.
> 4) Almost a separate topic, but should there be some kind of history of
> Apache projects? How certain projects merged with others, and split off,
> etc. Or perhaps a list of dead projects?
If you want to do it - go for it ;)
--
Cheers,
Pete
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