[generguide-devel] Todo before release

[Cameron S. <ca...@sh...>]

On Monday 11 Aug 2003 9:50 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> On Monday 11 Aug 2003 10:12 am, Artur Hefczyc wrote:
> > What about generic guide release? Have you any document describing what
> > it will contain?
> > I think I am available to work on this now so we can release first
> > version.
>
> Sounds like you had a great holiday.
> I'll think a bit more about what we need to do to get generguide published.
> Off the top of my head:
> 1. Provide a form for building a generguide config file and entity file. 
> I've already started on this.  Have a look at stylesheets in generguide/xsl
> When you run bin/generpublish.sh you will get target/generconfigform.html
> as well as the guide.  Still needs more work.
> 2. Do you know whether we can parse the entity file with XSL, or do we need
> to use another technology?
> I'm thinking the process is:
> entity.xml ---xsl--> html form ---javascipt--> entity.xml
> You might want to work on this.
> 3. We probably should rename the ids so they have the xml structure in
> their name (as you suggested a while back).

Artur, further thinking on this question.
2b. Can we pass entity files with XSL?  If not, we could store the entity file 
as XML, then use XSL to build the entities.ent file.
We can also use XSL to build a entities data entry form.

4. On the geotools IRC, people felt we need to improve maven support for 
docbook before people are prepared to write their module "about/design" 
sections in docbook.  Currently people want to use maven.  So I've 
volunteered to see how hard it is to update maven to support docbook.  I 
assume it involves updating the currently inadequte XSL.
I'm not sure if this is something you may be interested in.

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