Hi Math, 2007/7/26, Mathieu Avoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks to all of you for the answers. Now more questions! ;) > > I've been reading through some code in Doxia lately to understand how HTML > site generation is done, however foreign code is always hard to read and I > was hoping someone would digest it a little bit for me (like I always say, > saving time requires to be lazy :P). > > What I need to know is if it's still possible to call a "Driver" to have the > contents generated in a given place? Let me explain. If I try to make a > parallel with what I have done with Pixware's parser to achieve my goal, I > only extended the class fr.pixware.apt.convert.Driver ( > apteditor.drivers.APTEditorDriver) and called the appropriate method. A bit
I was not aware about this but it sounds very useful for a book playing > of code explains always better, so take a look at the following link, on > line 200, this is where all the magic happens in APT Editor: > > http://apteditor.cvs.sourceforge.net/apteditor/APTEditor/src/apteditor/editors/MultiPageEditor.java?revision=1.3&view=markup > > I wish I could do the same with Doxia and let it do the dirty work: finding > the css, figures and other, execute macros, etc, so I can concentrate on > adding nice features to the UI of APT Editor. Actually, no style exists in the AptSink. It is the renderer that pushes style. Cheers, Vincent > If anyone knows the answer let me know. In the mean time, I will have a look > at Trygve's code (thanks for the links by the way) to see how he's done it. > Trygve, if you want to contribute some code (in one way or the other) let me > know, I'm sure we can help each other, we seem to have the same goal! > > Thanks, > Math > > On 7/26/07, Trygve Laugstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Lukas Theussl wrote: > > > > > > > > > Vincent Siveton wrote: > > >> Hi Math! > > >> > > >> I recently add a pointer on your tool, so I am aware about your tool. > > >> > > >> 2007/7/25, Mathieu Avoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> > > >>> Hi everyone, > > >>> > > >>> I'm developing an Eclipse plugin called APT Editor which, like its > > name > > >>> suggests, is an editor/viewer for APT files. Basically, it offers an > > >>> "edit" > > >>> pane to update the contents of the document, and a "view" pane to > > >>> preview > > >>> the formatted version of the document in HTML. > > >> > > >> > > >> It is a great tool for dev. We could have a live renderer. > > >> > > >>> The project page is http://apteditor.sf.net > > >>> > > >>> Some people asked me if it was possible to offer the possibility to > > use > > >>> Maven Doxia's parser/renderer instead of the original code from > > pixware. > > >>> Sounds like a good idea to me, however not being a Doxia developer > > >>> (not even > > >>> a Maven user to be honest) I wouldn't know where to look. > > >>> > > >>> I'd appreciate if someone could give me some pointers as to how I > > could > > >>> integrate Doxia with the APT Editor. To summarize, I'd need to know > > what > > >>> libraries to load and what methods to invoke to generate an HTML > > >>> version of > > >>> a given APT file into a chosen directory. > > >> > > >> > > >> First, I suggest you to do a smart co of the doxia site > > >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/doxia/site > > >> We added lot of documentations these days. > > > > > > Would be nice if we could publish the new docs already (for people who > > > are not familiar with maven to build the site themselves), at least > > > somewhere on a stage site, or even live, since the main site is just > > > user docs. WDYT? > > > > > >> > > >> And another co from the full doxia project > > >> > > >> The apt parser is here: > > >> > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/doxia/doxia/trunk/doxia-modules/doxia-module-apt > > > > > > > > > Another link that might be useful is Trygve's doxia-editor: > > > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/sandbox/trunk/doxia/doxia-editor/ > > > > > > It's still in the sandbox and not very much advanced (it currently only > > > does apt -> xdoc conversion, and that not correctly... :( ), but from > > > what I understand, it's supposed to be a stand-alone editor/renderer for > > > any doxia-supported format. > > > > The biggest problem with creating an editor for Doxia is that Doxia has > > no object model, it is all about events which is a major PITA. The only > > thing that is usable from the editor I made is the stuff that builds the > > objects. > > > > -- > > Trygve > > >
