rough draft of initial documentation

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Asbell
pleas comment on this initial rough draft.  There is no color yet. Title: Struts is simply a package of java classes (components) which you integrate with a java enabled server, and which acts as a “f Literal explanation of Struts Struts is simply a package of java classes (components)

Re: The documentation, xml, and stylesheets

2001-06-17 Thread David Winterfeldt
I think it is a matter of planning for the future. Changing 10 pages of HTML may not be a big deal or even a hundred, but as the site's documentation keeps expanding it's easier to keep the documentation in XML so Struts and other Jakarta projects can easily be reformatted and released with a new

Documentation wish list repository

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Asbell
Hi Craig. Could we put together a repository of the documentation wish list items. It would be unreasonable for me to be searching through e-mails to do this - Original Message - From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:12 P

Re: I would like to offer myself to help with documentation

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Asbell
does someone have an example they can shoot to me of the xml and xsl used in documentation. - Original Message - From: "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 6:05 AM Subject: Re: I would like to offer myself to help with documentation > Jona

Re: The documentation, xml, and stylesheets

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Asbell
Mike, I am forced to work with xslt every day, and each day I find a new reason to say "what in the WORLD do people see in this?!". It has its place in changing from schema to scema, but who want to get so deep into a technology which is very hard to control, and in complex schemas consumes more

Re: The documentation, xml, and stylesheets

2001-06-17 Thread Michael Westbay
Jonathan-san wrote: > Yea, but now I will have to learn the dtd and create complex stylesheets. > Gentlemen. if I may be frank, this is an excercise in technical > masturbation. If I ever want to redo it all.than I will. Stylesheets > do not help, and those that have had to use them know exa

Re: The documentation, xml, and stylesheets

2001-06-17 Thread Ted Husted
This is true. The styles we are using now are minimalistic, and you probably won't need to refer to the stylesheet at all. Just monkey what's already there ;-). The only real pain is that the XML needs to compile properly, and if I try it by hand it usualy takes a few tries. Tools that check the X

Re: The documentation, xml, and stylesheets

2001-06-17 Thread Martin Cooper
You probably won't have to do much, if anything, with stylesheets unless you need to break away from the documentation style currently used by Struts. The stylesheets for that, obviously, are already in place, and you don't have to look at them if you don't want to. :-) -- Martin Cooper - O

Re: The documentation, xml, and stylesheets

2001-06-17 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Jonathan wrote: > Yea, but now I will have to learn the dtd and create complex stylesheets. > Gentlemen. if I may be frank, this is an excercise in technical > masturbation. If I ever want to redo it all.than I will. Stylesheets do > not help, and those that have had t

The documentation, xml, and stylesheets

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan
Yea, but now I will have to learn the dtd and create complex stylesheets. Gentlemen. if I may be frank, this is an excercise in technical masturbation. If I ever want to redo it all.than I will. Stylesheets do not help, and those that have had to use them know exactly what I am talking about.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.0 (Final) Released

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan
Can we make a repository for all this stuff. It is not easy to have to scan all emails and put things together from that - Original Message - From: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.0 (Final

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.0 (Final) Released

2001-06-17 Thread Martin Cooper
Yep, that looks good (but Struts' instead of Strut's). -- Martin Cooper - Original Message - From: "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 3:07 AM Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.0 (Final) Released > How about: > > < ... /> > > * Utili

final version of the Pager tag

2001-06-17 Thread Oleg V Alexeev
Hello struts-dev, This day I end up Pager tag implementation. Some enhancements in tag and in backend object - Pager, javadoc added, new attribute added to pager tag - 'parameters'. It is name of the page scope bean to use it as map with existing parameters to pass it to the generated links.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.0 (Final) Released

2001-06-17 Thread Ted Husted
How about: < ... /> * Utility classes for XML parsing, automatic JavaBean population, and internationalization of prompts and messages. Strut's support for internationalization builds on top of the Java Locale API, and has made it a popular choice for applications worldwide. Struts contributor

Re: I would like to offer myself to help with documentation

2001-06-17 Thread Ted Husted
Jonathan wrote: > It would be nice if it was just simple. Stylesheets are not. Why dont we > just use html Half the time, I think just to make my life more difficult ;-) The other half, I think so that we can * Ensure formatting consistency, * Change the look without editing the content, * G