Hi Arik,
AK> We are writing software that utilizes Forrest and generates a complete
AK> Forrest documentation project from some outside data. The only thing
AK> that is provided from outside our software is the menu structure and
Check out this example from a recent thread
Q: Integrate multipage externally generated content
It shows how to use x-include to insert buildingblocks into an
existing site.xml.
What I don't know/ haven't asked if this works with tabs as well, but
you could always ask Sjur.
Sjur Moshagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In site.xml:
>
> <site xmlns="http://apache.org/forrest/linkmap/1.0"; href=""
> label="MyProj" tab="" >
> <about label="Home" tab="Home" >
> <index href="index.html" label="Index" description="Welcome
divvun.no" />>
> <changes href="changes.html" label="Changes" description="The
ojects history" />>
> <todo href="todo.html" label="Todo" description="The plan
r the project" />>
> </about>
>
> <xi:include href="doc/site-frag.xml#xpointer(/tech/*)"
> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
>
> </site>
>
>
> In site-frag.xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <tech>
> <techdoc href="doc/" label="Technical doc" tab="TechDoc">
> <index href="intro.html" label="Introduction" />
> </techdoc>
> <!-- add entries ad lib just as in site.xml -->
> </tech>
>
> The same for tabs.xml and tabs-frag.xml.
>
> The outer element in both fragment files are required to make the files
> valid XML files. Hence the reference to the content of that element in
> the XInclude.
>
> It works like a charm, and having the full power of XInclude makes for
> a very flexible solution.
>
> Sjur
Regards
Ferdinand Soethe
