RE: [docbook-dev] DocBook-XSL 1.76.0-RC1 for preliminary testing

["Cramer, David W (David)" <dcramer@motive.com>]

Hi Cedric,

In xsl/webhelp/Makefile I just call ant and have it build the indexer:

 

build-indexer:

                $(ANT) build-indexer

 

That’s the same way xsl-saxon does it (I just copied it). The build-indexer ant target just compiles the indexer and jars it up. But to break out the indexer correctly, we’ll need the lucene jars like you said. I should really also split out some documentation for it as well and licensing information.

 

For the VERSION file and other release-related activities, I don’t know how all that works. I can see that xsl-saxon has a VERSION file that’s an xslt which seems to generate announcement(s) for freshmeat and sourceforge.

 

Sorry I haven’t had time to look into all this yet.

 

Thanks,

David

 

From: Mimil Mimil [mailto:mimilowns@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:47 AM
To: Cramer, David W (David); Keith Fahlgren; Docbook Apps; docbook-developers
Subject: Re: [docbook-dev] DocBook-XSL 1.76.0-RC1 for preliminary testing

 

Hello,

 

I am giving a try to make the xsl-webhelpindexer extension and I have some questions:

 

- can someone tell me how the VERSION file is created? (like in xsl-xalan or xsl-saxon)
- is there any external actions to do? (like in the scm, the bug tracker, ...)

- in Makefile, is "webhelpindexer.jar: $(wildcard src/)" correct? (I am not familiar with makefiles)

 

Regards,

Cedric,

 

 

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Mimil Mimil <mimilowns@gmail.com> wrote:

I didn't yet made the webhelp docbkx plugin but the plugin will mimic what your are doing in your ant file.

 

I am not sure it is a long task, I think about 3 steps:

- you guess you just need to split your ant file in 2 by extracting the compilation part into a top directory (like xsl-webhelpindexer?)

- I guess the Makefile in xsl/extensions have to be modified too to copy the jar you built + the lucen dependencies

- modify the your ant to take care of this new classpath

 

As I do not have the docbook building toolchain, I cannot make the test.

 

Regards,

Cedric,

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Cramer, David W (David) <dcramer@motive.com> wrote:

> I also have some comments on the webhelp/indexer content, I wonder if it can be refactored: 

> - isn't the indexer should be seen as a separate module as the xsl-saxon and xsl-xalan are?

> - and then the binaries located in extensions/ directory?

 

Yes, that make sense. Not sure how soon I’ll get around to breaking it out though.

 

I’d also like to understand how to build webhelp using the docbkx maven plugin, but I’m new to maven.

 

David