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Posted to -deprecated@jakarta.apache.org by Bill Brooks <wb...@lug.ee.calpoly.edu> on 2000/10/25 21:21:31 UTC

Re: New doc format and organization

On 17 Oct 2000, Stefan Bodewig wrote:

> [...] This is almost calling for docbook or stylebook - and I
> wouldn't mind going into that direction. [...rest of message
> elided..]

Sorry for the cross-post, but Stefan touched on an exposed nerve ending. 

Stylebook doesn't seem to actually exist for those outside the Apache
inner circle. There's no section on xml.apache.org for it, a search for
"stylebook" typed into search.apache.org returns "There were no items that
matched your search request". 

There's an article on how to write articles with it on
http://www.cscene.org/topics/web/snibril-stylebook-intro.xml.html#N1676039373
, but that article doesn't lower itself to actually providing a URL
where I can locate a DTD and download a set of XSL stylesheets. And I
had to find that article by using google! I loved the acknowledgement
at the end of the article:

     Part of the material presented here is based on the Stylebook
     documentation, Copyright  1999-2000 by Apache Software Foundation. 

Where can mere mortals find this elusive documentation? Can someone
point me to a URL or perhaps a CVS repository/CVS module name
combination? Thanks in advance.

Bill


RE: New doc format and organization

Posted by Conor MacNeill <co...@m64.com>.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Brooks [mailto:wbrooks@lug.ee.calpoly.edu]
> Where can mere mortals find this elusive documentation? Can someone
> point me to a URL or perhaps a CVS repository/CVS module name
> combination? Thanks in advance.

Bill,

I did a search on Altavista and came up with this

http://www.apache.org/websrc/cvsweb.cgi/xml-stylebook/



RE: [PATCH] Javac possible solution to exception

Posted by Erik Meade <em...@geekfarm.org>.
Attached the patch this time.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Meade [mailto:emeade@geekfarm.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:12 PM
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: [PATCH] Javac possible solution to exception
> 
> 
> The exception used to read:
> "Cannot use classic compiler, as it is not available"
> 
> I patched it to read:
> 
> "Cannot use classic compiler, as it is not available"+
> " A common solution is to set the environment variable"+
> " JAVA_HOME to your jdk directory."
> 
> Erik

[PATCH] Javac possible solution to exception

Posted by Erik Meade <em...@geekfarm.org>.
The exception used to read:
"Cannot use classic compiler, as it is not available"

I patched it to read:

"Cannot use classic compiler, as it is not available"+
" A common solution is to set the environment variable"+
" JAVA_HOME to your jdk directory."

Erik

Re: New doc format and organization

Posted by Peter Donald <do...@locus.apache.org>.
At 12:21  25/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On 17 Oct 2000, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>
>> [...] This is almost calling for docbook or stylebook - and I
>> wouldn't mind going into that direction. [...rest of message
>> elided..]
>
>Sorry for the cross-post, but Stefan touched on an exposed nerve ending. 
>
>Stylebook doesn't seem to actually exist for those outside the Apache
>inner circle. There's no section on xml.apache.org for it, a search for
>"stylebook" typed into search.apache.org returns "There were no items that
>matched your search request". 
>
>There's an article on how to write articles with it on
>http://www.cscene.org/topics/web/snibril-stylebook-intro.xml.html#N1676039373
>, but that article doesn't lower itself to actually providing a URL
>where I can locate a DTD and download a set of XSL stylesheets. And I
>had to find that article by using google! I loved the acknowledgement
>at the end of the article:
>
>     Part of the material presented here is based on the Stylebook
>     documentation, Copyright  1999-2000 by Apache Software Foundation. 
>
>Where can mere mortals find this elusive documentation? Can someone
>point me to a URL or perhaps a CVS repository/CVS module name
>combination? Thanks in advance.

http://xml.apache.org/websrc/cvsweb.cgi/ is the web scv with a link to it
so it should be possible to find the CVS URL from that (I think it is just
like other xml projects except with module name xml-stylebook). 

The best way to learn about it is to just look at the examples. Two
projects I know who have it are Avalon (http://java.apache.org/framework)
and Cocoon (xml.apache.org/cocoon).

Why is it undocumented ? Well I believe it was a proof of concept that grew
out of hand ;) Cocoon2 is meant to replace it eventually - it hasn't got
there yet but will get there in future ;)


Cheers,

Pete

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