That's the way to go IMHO. I liked the old free documentation in HTML and I like docbook and the whole idea of a XML transformation process into PDF or HTML. I sometime wish the new purchasable documentation "JBoss Administration and Development" or the "getting started guide" would not only come in PDF but HTML as well and that would be easily accomplished if it was written in docbook XML.
Sebastian > -----Original Message----- > From: David Jencks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] how to produce pdf files like jboss > getting started guide? > > > if you do some archaeology on the old, obsolete, free manual > you will find it uses a build system like > > docbook xml source > > docbook xsl stylesheet transforms > > apache fop to output pdf. > > When I worked on it there were a few problems, but I liked > the process. > Apparently no one else did, however. I suspect FOP has > progressed since I last looked, and I think there are other > flow object processors now available to convert appropriate > xml to pdf. > > I think the firebird project (on sourceforge) still has a > working setup like this in the manual module. > > david jencks ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
