Hi, I think the Velocity templates (datamodel.vm/table.vm in src/templates/doc/anakia) 
can be modified to achieve your first two cases. (Actually I modified table.vm a 
little bit to add foreign key column name in the table).

For SVG generation, see 
http://www.mail-archive.com/turbine-torque-dev@;jakarta.apache.org/msg00821.html.

Howard Lin   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Schindl [mailto:tom.schindl@;bestsolution.at]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:29 AM
> To: Turbine Torque Developers List
> Subject: Re: project documentation
> 
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> let's see whether I've understood you. You're using the HTML 
> produced by
> torques documentation task and process it using xdoc. Your 
> example looks
> nice.
> 
> My problem with this is, that to much information has been lost in the
> html-file(s) generated by torque. 
> 
> Now you have 2 possibilities if you want to rely on this infos:
> 
> 1) Changing the transformation-process provided by torque to include
> them in any way
> 2) Use the db-schema.xml and generate the documentation out of it.
> 
> 
> Well because I need much informations to generate my idea of
> documentation. Maybe not at this point but later on, when creating
> database-schema.jpg showing the structure and references 
> between tables
> in visual form instead of the linked HTML-Code. I think this 
> information
> has not to be exported into the HTML-file generated by torque. 
> 
> I've uploaded some screen shots on my webserver because cocoon is not
> running there at the moment.
> 
> http://www.bestsolution.at/torque/torque1.jpg
> This is the main-page. Already implemented by my xsl-Stylesheets.
> 
> http://www.bestsolution.at/torque/torque2.jpg
> This is the example for a tabel. Already implemented by my
> xsl-Stylesheets.
> 
> http://www.bestsolution.at/torque/torque3.jpg
> This is an example for my database-schema.jpg which I talked about a
> view lines above. At the moment this is a Screenshot taken from
> DbVisualizer.
> 
> Once more I don't want to replace the html-output generated 
> by torque. I
> only wanted to show up another way to create a documentation based on
> the db-schema.xml-File.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tom
> 
> 
> Am Mit, 2002-11-06 um 08.07 schrieb Ben Walding:
> > Did I miss something?
> > 
> > How is this different than the anakia doc output from 
> Torque that can be 
> > processed by xdoc into a web page?
> > eg. 
> http://montage.sourceforge.net/montage-server/montage-schema.html
> > This is all done using only a handful of commands.  If 
> anyone wants more 
> > information, let me know.
> > 
> > Is yours an improved version?
> > 
> > 
> > (I'm not trying to be a smart *ss or put down what you've 
> done.  I'm 
> > curious to know if what you've done is better than what was 
> built into 
> > to torque)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > Jeffrey D. Brekke wrote:
> > 
> > >This may be a nice addition to the maven-torque plugin.  
> You could use the 
> > >maven xdoc goals to convert the documents into reports 
> with the maven l&f 
> > >and integrate into the project docs.
> > >
> > >
> > >On 5 Nov 2002, Tom Schindl wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Hi,
> > >>
> > >>After having spent some hours thinking about a nice 
> documentation about
> > >>my database created using torque. I thought about using cocoon and
> > >>writing a stylesheet to convert everything into HTML as the primer
> > >>outputformat.
> > >>
> > >>I've used maven.css and tigris.css so the design looks 
> like the torque
> > >>homepage (I've learned from my faults made in the last
> > >>documentation-patch :-)) ).
> > >>
> > >>I think generating the documentation using XSL and XSLT has many
> > >>advantages against the one provided at the moment. 
> Nevertheless I don't
> > >>want to replace the actual documentation I think my way 
> could be an
> > >>add-on to torque.
> > >>
> > >>At the moment have a set of stylesheets generating the following:
> > >>* database documentation in html
> > >>* table document in html
> > >>
> > >>My first questions now are:
> > >>* What does the community and the developers of torque 
> think about it?
> > >>* Whom should I mail my set of xsl-stylesheets to take a 
> look at them
> > >>and tell what has to be changed. Should I pack them up as 
> a ZIP and send
> > >>them to the mailing list?
> > >>
> > >>I've also planned to implement the following things after 
> this first
> > >>try:
> > >>* generating a database overview very similar to the one 
> you'll get from
> > >>tools like Access or DbVisualizer. This writing an XSL-Stylesheet
> > >>generating a SVG-File and using Cocoons-Serialzer to 
> generate a PNG out
> > >>of it
> > >>* PDF as output format instead of HTML using Cocoon and FOP
> > >>
> > >>bye
> > >>
> > >>tom
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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