I've gone through the docs for the site-plugin today. It turns out that
all skinning is lost when you use a custom Velocity template file. The
recommendation is to create a skin instead.
andzy wrote:
Thanks for the quick response.
I had tried this, but unfortunately it doesn't help.
Maven is able to find and use my .vm file (as I can change static HTML
text), but apparently cannot pass data from it's site.xml file, as the .vm
file doesn't seem to have access to elements of that XML file (to create
dynamic HTML text).
dennisl-2 wrote:
Hi
According to the docs here:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/examples/templatefile.html
You should also add this to your configuration
<templateDirectory>${basedir}</templateDirectory>
The default value for templateDirectory is src/site.
Or you could move your maven-site.vm file to the src/site directory.
andzy wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to learn how to use Velocity and Maven to generate some HTML
pages. (I'm using Velocity Engine that comes with Maven 2.0.5)
The problem I have is that my .vm file does not "see" structure of the
Maven's site declaration.
When I run Maven without reference to my .vm file, it generates HTML file
with the structure of the site as defined in /src/site/site.xml file (as
well as the contents of the index.apt file).
This works fine.
Then I add my custom Velocity file "maven-site.vm" and reference it in
the
pom.xml file:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0-beta-5</version>
<configuration>
<templateFile>maven-site.vm</templateFile>
<inputEncoding>UTF-8</inputEncoding>
<outputEncoding>UTF-8</outputEncoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
I can change the generated HTML page with the help of my Velocity file.
However, when I try to retrieve the "site.xml" structure using
$siteDescriptor.getChild() (for example, $siteDescriptor.getChild(
"bannerLeft" ) ), I always get null.
Why is it so?
Is there anything else I have to define?
Or is my file structure incorrect?
Here is the structure of my sample project:
--WebTest
|-- pom.xml
|-- build.xml
|-- maven-site.vm
+-- src
|--+ site
|-- site.xml
|--+ apt
|- index.apt
I've spent a lot of time searching for solution, but haven't been able to
find the answer.
Thanks!
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