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14 September 2003 - Apache Forrest 0.5 Released

The Forrest team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Forrest 0.5. The release is available at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/forrest/

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Forrest (http://forrest.apache.org/) is an XML standards-oriented project documentation framework built on Apache Cocoon, providing XSLT stylesheets and schemas, images and other resources. Forrest uses these to render the XML source content into a website via command-line, robot (see http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/), or a dynamic web application.

Status
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Significant progress has been made in the seven months since Forrest 0.4. New features include:

* 70%-300% faster, thanks to the new command-line interface in Cocoon 2.1.1
* Ability to generate a single PDF/HTML of the entire site
* New flexible tab/menu system [1]
* Numerous skin improvements, including Javascript-controlled menus, handling of and , configurable mini-toc depth, menu tooltips, and a new pure CSS variant of standard skin.
* DTD improvements (v11 replaced with v12, and v20 in development)
* Rudimentary Docbook support
* Wiki support [2]
* Improved PDF output

Under the hood, the monolithic sitemap has been divided into functional categories and logical layers [3], with the aim of making Forrest sites easier to maintain, and new features easier to add.

The full list of changes is viewable at:

http://xml.apache.org/forrest/changes.html

An Upgrade Guide is available at:

http://xml.apache.org/forrest/upgrading_05.html

Please send feedback to forrest-dev@xml.apache.org (after subscribing).

For more information on the Apache Forrest project, please see
http://xml.apache.org/forrest/

- The Apache Forrest Development Team

---- Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at September 14, 2003 05:25 AM
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