Hi,

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:59:42PM -0700, Glen Mazza wrote:
> BTW, are there any plans for Xalan to switch to
> Forrest for its website layout?

I looked into this a while back, and IMHO Forrest isn't really up to the
job yet.  Forrest lacks some nice features that Stylebook has, and Xalan
uses extensively:

 - Stylebook lets you predeclare entities in entities.ent, and use them
   in any xdocs
 - Stylebook also has a simple macro facility, with <resource-ref
   idref="foo"/> expanding to an XML snippet defined in resource.xml.
 - Stylebook lets you define multiple book.xml files, generating
   different content for local vs. online websites.

And there's the fact that Stylebook is 51k, Forrest is 12Mb :)

Forrest is currently at v0.4.  I hope that around v0.6 we'll have
addressed most of these issues.

--Jeff

(Forrest developer)

> If the team could use
> an additional worker in reformatting the pages to
> forrest-xml, let me know.
> 
> Glen

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