[hibernate-dev] Re: docbook + maven
Sure. What we do is we package the styles in a zip file using a
standard maven project and the build-helper-mojo from codehaus. The
zip file contains not only the CSS, the XSLT parameters but also the
images linked to the style.
Next, in a "doc" project, we depend on the zip above and we use the
dependency plugin to inject the data (dependency:unpack) in the
target/${artifactId} directory where the docb sources are copied.
I am not overly
familiar with this dependency plugin, but the overall
approach sounds essentially the same as I described in my "staging"
approach. The concern I had was knowing which dependencies to pull
resources from. I would then guess that this dependency plugin you
mention requires you to explicitly state the coordinate to be unpacked;
essentially doubling the config?
Now, we have a hard dependency on xmlto for the actual generation.
If
we can use a more elegant solution, I'll be glad to test :)
I am not overly
familiar with 'xmlto' other than the fact it exists ;)
From my understanding, it is an xslt framework, right? I just use
SAXON
inline with the plugin using a Transformer built based on the
configuration, project, etc. The only drawback I have seen is the fact
that SAXON eats large amounts of memory.