[Exist-development] New "doc" app

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi all,

In an attempt to move the current documentation out of the webapp
directory and into a new .xar app, I just committed a new app to the
eXist SVN repository in the exist/apps area.  (There were more commits
than I intended - sorry.)

I'm aware of the longstanding project to migrate the documentation to
DocBook 5 and revamp the organization, etc.  This app is not intended
to replace/displace that effort.  This is just an attempt to bridge
the gap for the purposes of the eXist 2.0 launch.

If you want to try out the new app, check out exist/apps/doc, and run
"ant" in the checked out directory to build the .xar file (it'll show
up in build/doc-0.1.xar).  Then install the xar file with admin >
package repository.  Then the app will be in:

  http://localhost:8080/exist/apps/doc

Some known issues/to dos:

- Only webapp/*.xml files were copied into the new app
- This omits any documentation in subfolders of webapp, since they
contain feature demos which belong in the "demo" app (some "demos"
have already been moved, others needs to be moved)
- The pure documentation from the subfolders should be edited to strip
out the demo bits, instead linking to the demo content once it has
been moved into the "demo" app
- I haven't updated "documentation.xml" to reflect these omitted files
- The documentation XSLT (stylesheets/db2html.xsl) and CSS
(resources/css/exist.css) need work
- Search form & functionality will be added in consultation with Wolfgang

Feel free to report other problems here.

Joe