Alexey, If you look into the structure of the Harmony website, you'll see that permanent pages are originally written in XML, then built with Ant using Anakia for XML>HTML transformation into normal HTML. So, the source XML files are stored in xdocs/ and resulting HTML files in docs/. This is described in README.txt in harmony/standard/site/.
So far, external materials on classlib packages were placed in HTML in docs/externals directory as a read-only copy from repository. Now, as I understood Geir, the number of useful materials that are relatively stable grows (5 classlib docs + several drlvm docs) and placing them all in externals/ does not seem reasonable any more. So, Geir has suggested, and Tim Ellison has agreed that we need to transfer the external HTML files to the XML format and make them part of site this way. The issue is the volume of this task. For a short HTML doc, you can transfer the content fairly easily: change <h> tags to <section> and <subsection> and leave <p> and <ul> tags as they are interpreted normally. However, for longer docs with a variety of CSS styles applied and various content unit used, e.g. notes, definition lists, formatted tables, and so forth. For such formatting-rich documents, the HTML > XML transfer does not appear so linear. As I understand, this will take a significant amount of manual editing. Or am I missing something? Your suggestions on format transformations are most welcome :) Best regards, Nadya Morozova, -----Original Message----- From: Ivanov, Alexey A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:25 AM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [doc]proposal to improve and expand website Nadezhda, >-----Original Message----- >From: Morozova, Nadezhda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:52 PM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [doc]proposal to improve and expand website > >Geir, >Let me double-check what exactly you are proposing: > >> I wonder if it's time we pull that stuff out of classlib/ and move to >> the site itself... > >Do you mean that we do the following: >1) Move the ASN1 and REGEXP docs out of docs/externals to >xdocs/subcomponents/classlib by converting them to XML? What kind of XML do you mean? I just can't understand. >2) Move the html docs packaged with classlib donations (JNDI DNS, AWT, >JAVA2D) to the same directory with conversion involved? > >I'd also recommend that we do the same for stable VM docs, like DevGuide >and Getting Started. > >Now, the idea of integrating the docs into the site is just fine with >me. > >However, the docs are very HTML-driven now, so you can't just cut&paste >the HTML content with a couple of manual replacements and have a valid >XML. There're over 15 styles that cannot map to standard XML tags. We'll What are standard XML tags? Or do you mean XHTML? Or am I just missing anything? Thank you in advance, Alexey. >have to think of some content model and a DTD for those, probably. And >still this will mean a lot of work. >So I was wondering whether it is worth the effort? What will the major >benefits of conversion be? Couldn't we just have the docs statically in >HTML? At least for now? > >Best regards, >Nadya Morozova, > >-----Original Message----- >From: Geir Magnusson Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:32 PM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [doc]proposal to improve and expand website > > > >Morozova, Nadezhda wrote: > >> I scanned the svn repository for classlib packages, and found a few >more >> that had docs with them, namely the JNDI DNS Service Provider, the AWT >> framework and the Java2D implementation. I could move their docs to >the >> externals/ directory as well. >> Now, this makes multiple docs in one folder, so I thought I'd group >all >> classlib package docs into a classlib/ subfolder and all DRLVM docs >into >> the drlvm/ subfolder. Shared files, like the style sheet, could be >> placed in those folders to avoid duplication. > >I wonder if it's time we pull that stuff out of classlib/ and move to >the site itself... > >geir > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexey A. Ivanov Intel Middleware Product Division --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
