Ilene, Jeff raised some concerns (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-dev&m=105588237516379&w=2) about Forrest not yet being as powerful as Stylebook in certain features that Xalan is currently using.
I guess the first question for the Xalan team before proceeding to Forrest then, is whether any of the three issues Jeff raised are sufficiently "show-stoppers" to warrant waiting until V0.6 of Forrest. If they are--e.g., Xalan does not want to lose predefined entities, etc.--then we should stop here until 0.6 is released. OTOH, the team may wish to get this conversion out of the way before XSLT 2.0 work begins in earnest--and perhaps several more pages that would need to be translated are created. This is for you all to decide first. If the current Forrest V0.4 is acceptable for Xalan, the next potential show stopper is whether or not Jeff & rest of Forrest team can absorb two more sites--Xalan C & Xalan J--on their Forrestbot. They're currently handling about ten projects, they may want Xalan to wait until those are better "nailed down"--I don't know. As described here for FOP: http://xml.apache.org/fop/dev/doc.html, the forrestbot will read the Xalan CVS site automatically every six hours and place the results for previewing on a test web site. To move the updated docs to the actual site, apparently all you will need to do is log into to the Forrestbot http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/index.jsp and hit a "Publish" button. (But as that page states, you'll need a forrestbot account from Jeff first.) So, when the above two issues are handled, then we can look at converting the document pages. My suspicion is that it would be best to convert the Xalan-C site first, as it's smaller and probably doesn't change as much as the Xalan-J site. I can probably best help here with reformatting the pages--they *shouldn't* take that much time (I would hope!) Glen --- Ilene Seelemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glen, > > Yep, Forestize-ing the website is on my "to do" > list. If you want to lend > a hand, that would be great. I haven't even > downloaded recent Forrest > documentation, so just le me know what you'd like to > do. > > Ilene. > > > > > > > Glen Mazza > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > m> cc: > > > > Subject: Xalan switch to Forrest? (Was: [PATCH] > website doc typos) > 06/07/2003 06:59 > > > PM > > > Please respond to > > > xalan-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > BTW, are there any plans for Xalan to switch to > Forrest for its website layout? If the team could > use > an additional worker in reformatting the pages to > forrest-xml, let me know. > > Glen > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2003-06-07 21:09 ------- > > Thank you for the patch! I've committed the > > changes, but you won't see them > > until the website is updated. > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to > Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
