> -----Original Message----- > From: Cocell | Trygve Laugstøl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 June 2003 13:52 > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: Maven web site and Wiki > > Hi > > Sounds like a really good plan, but perhaps there should be installed a > normal wiki installation that can deliver xml exports. > > Then a nighly cronjob could do this > 1. Export the new/updated entries to a xml file > 2. Use XSLT to transform the wiki xml to xdoc. > 3. Use XSLT to take out the commend field and commit it into cvs > > This way all that needs to be done is to write two rather simple xsl > tranformation sheets and the existing cvs mails will tell us about the > updates.
Why would you need to do all that? That is automatically done on the fly when you edit topics in the wiki... Have a look at: http://www.mockobjects.com/wiki/ Here is an example of the generated XML : http://www.mockobjects.com/wiki/FrontPage?action=format&mimetype=text/xm l (you might need to do a "view source" with IE). -Vincent > > Trygve > > Vincent Massol wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here are some facts: > > - Our Maven web site contains lots of inaccuracies and would not suffer > > from additional documentation > > - Some Maven users would be happy to contribute if we gave them easy > > tools for that. > > > > The idea: > > > > - Transform our web site from a static web site into a Wiki web site. > > - But not any wiki! One that saves topics in XML format. For example the > > MoinMoin wiki saves topic in xdocs format (stylebook style unfortunately > > but that's not too far from our xdocs format and could probably be > > easily modified ) > > - Second step: hook the wiki to CVS so that modifications are saved in > > our Maven CVS, directly in xdocs format. This is possible with MoinMoin > > and probably with others too. > > - Note: The MoinMoin wiki also has a "comment" field that could be used > > as the CVS commit message. We could force the need to have a non-blank > > text if we wish to make sure there are commit messages. > > - We get automatically CVS email notifications whenever pages are > > modified and we can thus easily control the changes made to the wiki and > > correct when and if needed. > > > > Conclusion: > > - We keep the advantage of our xdocs > > - We can still edit xdocs directly should we wish > > - Anyone can contribute easily to the documentation and we get good and > > up to date Maven documentation. > > > > If we agree, there are things to do: > > - We need to find a machine where the wiki could run (it could be a > > machine provided by a Friend Of Maven or an Apache one if there's one > > available) > > - We need someone to look at MoinMoin (or another wiki) to perform the > > following: > > - find how to hook it to CVS > > - find how to change the default style to be the Maven style > > (stylesheet) > > - find how to modify the DTD so that the xdocs are in the Maven xdocs > > format > > - find how to define where xdocs are saved in CVS so that we try to > > match the existing locations of xdocs > > - We need a Wiki admin > > > > What do you think? > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
