On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 15:51, Brian Burridge wrote:
> Has anyone used xdoc for web site content other than a Maven site?
> 
> Did xdoc originate from somewhere else? 

Yes.

Pier Fumigalli originally made a tool in xml.apache.org called stylebook
and that's where the format originally came from as far as I know. It
was first used in Jakarta by the Jetspeed project. I then converted the
Turbine documentation to use the xdoc format. Then I wrote Velocity,
then Jon Stevens wrote Anakia. Anakia uses a slight different format
than the original xdoc format but became popular enough of a format that
Apache's top-level site uses Anakia which uses. With Maven we use the
exact same format and at first used DVSL to transform the xdoc into html
and now we use Jelly. That's the history as far as a know, I'm not sure
where Pier originally got the format or if he just decided on the format
himself.

> I've been looking into having
> all our sites content stored in xml, and was going to create xml
> specific to our content, but if xdoc can be used outside of Maven I may
> use its markup instead.

Sure it could. You just need to make your own site.jsl if you want
something significantly different from what Maven provides.

> Any idea/suggestions?

You might want to look in the Avalon repositories as they used their own
site.jsl.

> Brian
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