[Javaweb-people] Re: [Fwd: XML doclet name]

[Brian Jones]

Julian,

I forwarded this to the GNU java mailing list.  Nic Ferrier may know
if there is any standard in use already.

Brian

Julian Scheid <address@hidden> writes:

> Context:
> 
> Some days ago, and several months after my initial announcement, I
> finally resumed work on the Javadoc drop-in we decided to name
> 'gjdoc' back then - perhaps you remember.
> 
> There are still a number of bugs and unresolved issues, but I hope
> we at cp-tools can provide a useful alpha version during the next
> two or three weeks, last not least.
> 
> One thing was missing all the time: a replacement for Suns "Standard
> Doclet" which allows you to produce documentation in HTML format.
> In order to fill this gap, I recently wrote a doclet which outputs
> XML code, and a corresponding XSLT sheet which transforms this into a
> set of HTML pages.
> 
> The following refers to this intermediate doclet, which basically
> does nothing but dump Doclet API information to stdout in XML format.
> 
> I'm forwarding this to the Classpath list because of the XML issues
> involved. Perhaps someone can tell me what the current GNU policy is
> on XML unique URLs and such?
> 
> Julian
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: XML doclet name
> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 03:54:11 +0100
> From: Julian Scheid <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> 
> Not only Sun and Apache efforts for writing Javadoc as XML
> are named XMLDoclet. See http://www.google.com/search?q=xmldoclet
> 
> So we should come up with a different name I suppose.
> What about "gjdocxml" or "gjxmldoclet"? Any suggestion?
> 
> We need names for the following too:
> (my suggestion in brackets)
> 
> - xml namespace prefix ("gjdoc:")
> - xml namespace url ("http://www.gnu.org/software/cp-tools/gjdoc";)
> - xml dtd file name ("gjdoc.dtd")
> - xml dtd url ("http://www.gnu.org/software/cp-tools/gjdoc.dtd";)
> - xsl sheet ("gjdoc2html.xsl")
> 
> Let me know what you think of these, I'm especially unsure about
> the URLs... is there anything like a GNU XML standard?
> 
> 
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