svn commit: r219373 - /forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_80/howto/howto-view-install.xml

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Author: crossley
Date: Sat Jul 16 23:58:34 2005
New Revision: 219373

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=219373&view=rev
Log:
Prerequisite to read the buildPlugin howto
and especially the part about using Forrest's own Ant.
Other minor text tweaks and grammar stuff.

Modified:
    forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_80/howto/howto-view-install.xml

Modified: forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_80/howto/howto-view-install.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_80/howto/howto-view-install.xml?rev=219373&r1=219372&r2=219373&view=diff
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--- forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_80/howto/howto-view-install.xml (original)
+++ forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/docs_0_80/howto/howto-view-install.xml Sat Jul 16 23:58:34 2005
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <abstract>
     This How-To describes the setup of the plugins (needed to work with forrest:views and forrest:contracts) and a fresh seed.
   </abstract>
-  <last-modified-content-date date="2005-06-06"/>
+  <last-modified-content-date date="2005-07-17"/>
  </header>
 
   <audience title="Intended Audience">
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 <warning>
 "Views" are new functionality which is still in development phase. That is why it is in the
 "whiteboard" section of the Forrest distribution.
-This HowTo is a good start but still needs proof-reading.
+This HowTo is a good start but still needs more work.
 </warning>
 
     <p>
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
   <prerequisites title="Prerequisites">
     <ul>
       <li>You have to use the trunk version of forrest for using views because it is in an early stage</li>
+      <li>Read <a href="site:v0.80//howto/buildPlugin">How to Build a Plugin</a>
+        especially the section about using Forrest's own Ant.</li>
     </ul>
   </prerequisites>
 
@@ -76,7 +78,7 @@
     <section id="newSeed">
       <title>Seed a new project</title>
       <p> 
-				Go to the dir where you want to seed a new project and seed it. 
+	Go to the directory where you want to seed a new project and seed it. 
       </p>
       <source>
 cd ~/src/newSeed
@@ -86,18 +88,18 @@
     <section id="forrestProperties">
       <title>Modifying forrest.properties</title>
       <p>
-        Now we have to tell forrest that we are planing to use the view plugins. We will do that
-        by editing to the forrest.properties to add the plugins:
+        Now we have to tell forrest that we are planning to use the view plugins. We will do that
+        by editing the forrest.properties to add the plugins:
       </p>
       <source>
 project.required.plugins=org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml,org.apache.forrest.plugin.internal.view
       </source>
       <p>
 	     Now we have to change the project skin to leather-dev. The reason is that the plugins are still
-       not independend form the "old fashion skins".  
+       not independent from the "old fashion skins".  
       </p>
-      <note>We exchanging only
-	     site2xhtml.xsl of leather-dev skin by the plugins and some contracts are based
+      <note>We are exchanging only
+	     site2xhtml.xsl of leather-dev skin with the plugins, and some contracts are based
 	     on e.g. document2html.xsl output of leather-dev.</note>
      <source>
 project.skin=leather-dev
@@ -106,21 +108,21 @@
     <section id="testing">
       <title>Test your new view based project</title>
       <p> 
-        Now you have finished the preparation and the setup to finally try
+        Now you have finished the preparation and the setup to finally do
       </p>
       <source>
 forrest run
       </source>
       <p>then point to <a href="http://localhost:8888/">http://localhost:8888/</a> and you should see the default
-        view based skin.</p>
-      <note>When developing styles with views 'forrest run' is the quickest
-way. You will see you do not have to build your project to see the
+        view-based skin.</p>
+      <note>When developing styles with views, 'forrest run' is the quickest
+way. You will see that you do not have to build your project to see the
 changes on your pages when working with *.fv. </note>
     </section>
     <section id="availableContracts">
 	    <title>Available contracts</title>
 	    <p> 
-	     To start working with views you need to know which contracts you can use. 
+	     To start working with views, you need to know which contracts you can use. 
 	     For this we will install another plugin <code>org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.viewHelper.xhtml.ls</code>.
 	     The setup is:
 	    </p>
@@ -131,10 +133,10 @@
 ant local-deploy
 </source>
 			<p>
-        The newly installed plugin will show the available contracts as html page.
-        First we have to tell forrest that we are planing to use the new plugin. We will do that
+        The newly installed plugin will show the available contracts as html pages.
+        First we have to tell forrest that we are planning to use the new plugin. We will do that
         by editing the forrest.properties of the <a href="site:howto/view/install">newSeed</a> 
-        to <strong>add</strong> the plugin:
+        to add the plugin:
       </p>
       <source>
 project.required.plugins=org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.viewHelper.xhtml.ls