I adapted some build files and style sheets from my personal web site for Jakarta this morning, while posting the Tapestry 4.0-beta-11 release notes.
Having posted a lot (!) of releases, I've grown very frustrated with the very manual, tedious process. There is now a general news files, news.xml, in the jakarta-site2 directory. This file contains all new news. The build process uses this file to generate an RSS feed, and to generate XML content files in the site/news folder (which are then converted to HTML). The master index (at jakarta.apache.org/index.html) is generated from this file as well (it is limited to the most recent 20 entries). The format should be easy to grasp. A root <news> element contains <group> elements. Each <group> has an @id and a @title and will be used to generate a single news file in the site/news folder. Currently, a "group" is a calendar quarter, but this can change in the future if things really heat up (i.e., monthly news pages rather than quarterly). <group> contains <release> and <news>. Both of these contain an @id attribute (consisting of "YYYYMMDD.x", i.e., a date stamp and index within a day), and a @date attribute (a formatted date, such as "17 October 2005"). I suspect some clever juggling could programatically generate the date from the id, but oh well. <release> contains @product which is the product that was released (i.e., "Tapestry 4.0-beta-11"). <news> contains @title which is simply the title of the news entry (i.e., "Right Commons-Cli 1.0 Jar Now In Java Repository"). <release> and <news> contains a body of markup, the details about that product release or general news entry. I also update the site.xml navigation, to add a link to the RSS feed. I'm quite happy with how it came out. An RSS feed makes the site feel a bit more modern and cared for. I suspect at some point we'll need to find a way to split this one news file into several files, but beyond that, this seems like an approach we can all live with. -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant Creator, Jakarta Tapestry Creator, Jakarta HiveMind Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support and project work. http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
