Hi Jose

We're just looking into using docbook for both integrated help and the
user manual, so a maven docbook plugin would really be appreciated.

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On 11/24/05, Jeff Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jose,
>
> Fantastic!  "...if there is interest...", yes there is!  I will need docbook
> from Maven in the near future.
>
> And your auto olink db generation sounds great!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 2:38 AM
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: Docbook plugin
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a preliminary version of a Docbook plugin for Maven2. Here is my
> typical use case:
>
> I use to write project documentation (at least requirements) using Unified
> Process "artifacts" (Software requirements specification, actors
> specification, glossary, risk list, use case specifications,...). My main
> objective is to have a lot of small, manageable and interlinked documents
> that form the whole documentation and that can be easily browsed using an
> Internet browser. To achieve this I use Docbook articles with cross
> references between documents using olink. In order to transform this
> documents into a browsable web, you must supply a olink database to the
> Docbook stylesheets to enable external link resolution.
>
> The plugin scans existing Docbook files and automatically generates the
> olink database using the standard stylesheets. Once the database is created,
> transforms every document (no chunking nor toc) using the provided database.
> The only requirement for this to work is to use a predefined schema to build
> the name of referenced documents (very easy).
>
> I know this is a very focused use case and implementation, so I would like
> to know if there is interest in this to publish it as open source, and maybe
> add more requirements and flexibility to it...
>
> Best regards
> Jose
>
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