[ANN] Apache Forrest 0.3 released

[Jeff Turner <je...@apache.org>]

The Forrest team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Forrest
0.3.  The release is available at
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xml/forrest/

Blurb
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Forrest (http://xml.apache.org/forrest/) is an XML standards-oriented
project documentation framework built on Apache Cocoon, providing XSLT
stylesheets and schemas, images and other resources. Forrest uses these
to render the XML source content into a website via command-line, robot
(see http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org), or a dynamic web application.

Status
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Forrest 0.3 incorporates two months of improvements and bugfixes since
0.2.  Most of the changes are incremental, and backwards-compatibility
with 0.2 has been maintained.  Compared to 0.2, the main changes are:

 - Generated URI spaces are much cleaner, with meaningful fragment
   identifiers generated from @ids or <title>s.
 - A new 'krysalis-site' skin (eg, at http://ws.apache.org/).
 - All skins are valid HTML 4.0.1, with an XHTML 1.0 skin in the works.
 - FAQ rendering has been greatly improved (see
   http://xml.apache.org/forrest/faq.html).
 - The need for a book.xml per directory has been removed in favour of a
   central site.xml file defining the entire site.  book.xml is still
   fully supported.
 - One can now link to an abstract node in site.xml, which is translated
   at runtime to the actual href.  Eg, <site
   href="site:faq/how_can_I_help"> might become <a
   href="http://xml.apache.org/forrest/faq.html#how_can_I_help">.
   Likewise, <link href="ext:xhtml2"> might become <a
   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2">.  More info at
   http://xml.apache.org/forrest/linking.html
 - Flexible handling of raw non-Forrest-generated content.
   Hand-generated HTML may be copied across unmodified, or have just the
   header/menu added.
 - Alternative doc formats, including subsetted HTML and Wiki formats.
   An incomplete Docbook stylesheet is looking for a developer.
 - Forrest no longer clobbers xdocs edited in build/webapps.

A full list of changes is available at:

http://xml.apache.org/forrest/changes.html

As usual, please send feedback to forrest-dev@xml.apache.org.


  The Apache Forrest team


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